Japanese firm Nisha Medical to open Nashville engineering hub; announces 38 jobs, $4 million investment

A staff member announced at Vanderbilt University in Nashville that Nisha Medical, a company from Japan, will make Nashville its engineering hub, creating 38 jobs and investing more than $4,000,000. "They announced today 38 new jobs and over $4,000,000 of capital investment," the staff member said.

The investment is tied to a collaboration with Endothea, a device technology developed at Vanderbilt Medical Center and Vanderbilt University, the staff member said. The project is billed as a public-private partnership involving the state, the city, the chamber of commerce and Vanderbilt. The staff member described the hub as including engineering facilities and shared equipment intended for entrepreneurs.

Details provided by the staff member said the Nashville hub will include a dry lab and machine shop and will allow entrepreneurs to "come in, utilize their space, [and] machine shop, all those things." The announcement said Nisha will allow outside entrepreneurs access to that space as part of the company's engineering operations.

The staff member described the collaboration as a model the partners hope to replicate elsewhere in the state. "This is just a good example where you have industry and you have a research partner collaborating, coming together, creating jobs, making investments in our state, and that's what we wanna try to continue to do," the staff member said.