Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign

🟢 Applications are open now through July 28! The Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship is an experience like no other. Working in multidisciplinary teams, our fellows learn how to identify important unmet medical needs, invent technologies to address them, and prepare to implement those solutions into patient care. 💡If you’re an aspiring innovator with a background in healthcare, engineering, computer science, or business we’d love to hear from you. 🔗 Learn more about the fellowship here: bit.ly/BiodesignFellow

🇫🇷 Bonjour to our 2024-25 Innovation Fellows Jorge Mena and Shirin Sadri who are completing their externships in Paris, France at Brightheart AI and Sofinnova respectively. They share with us what they aim to learn from this opportunity: Jorge: “I wanted to work for an early-stage company where I would get exposure to many different aspects of the "implementation" process such as the regulatory landscape.” Shirin: “I wanted more exposure to early stage medtech startups and to learn how / why investors believe in certain ideas. I hope to learn on the ground level what an early stage company does (e.g. FDA clearance, prepping for series A funding) and also learn a bit about how investors think and make investment decisions in healthcare.” — We’re recruiting for the 2026-27 Innovation Fellowship. Interested? Check the link in the comments to learn more. #innovationeducation #healthtech

📢 Attention 2026-27 Innovation Fellowship applicants! This is your chance to hear directly from some of our alumni—Ignacio Pérez, Anastasia Ntracha, Andréas Ward, and Marisa Markovich —as they share their experience and answer your most pressing questions. 💡Join us for an interactive session with Innovation Fellowship alumni from the U.S. and abroad! Hear firsthand about their innovation journeys through the fellowship, the program's structure, challenges and rewards, the learning opportunities it offers, and the impact it has had on their healthtech innovation careers. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how you can be a part of the future of healthtech! 📅When: Wednesday June 11 at 9am PT (12pm ET)  🔗RSVP link in the comments #innovationeducation #healthtech #biotech #digitalhealth

Marisa Markovich is in Austin, Texas, completing her externship with Santé Ventures ―a healthcare and life science venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on biotechnology, medical technology, and digital health― and with one of its portfolio companies, Taurus Endoscopy, co-founded and led by 2020 Innovation Fellow alum Mariel Bolhouse! “This is a unique opportunity to see first-hand both: the venture capital process, working with the experts at Santé Ventures, and the operator side of a startup through Santé portfolio company Taurus Endoscopy. At Taurus, I’m supporting the market landscaping and preparation for commercialization of their portfolio of endoscopy products.” — Are you imagining yourself doing something similar in two years? Applications are open for the 2026-27 Innovation Fellowship. Check the link in the comments to learn more. #innovationeducation #healthtech

Welcome to Stanford! We’re excited to have the eight 2025 East Africa Biodesign Fellows on campus, together with two of their faculty members. Christelle, Peredy, Joan, Timothy, Lisa, Longinus, Susan, and Edwin are five months into their fellowship and recently completed their ‘Invent bootcamp’, where they brainstormed and prototyped possible solutions to the unmet needs they have identified. During their time at Stanford, the fellows will participate in lectures, coaching sessions with faculty, visits, and events to further develop their projects and strengthen their connections with the broader Biodesign community. Their welcome breakfast this morning was also an opportunity to connect with the 2025 Global Faculty Trainees. We’re glad to have our 5 remote GFITs back on campus to complete the final 2 weeks of their program together with their 3 in-person colleagues. We’re sure GFIT alumni and current EAB faculty Anthony and Natnael will have some tips for the current GFIT cohort 😉. Cheers to our global biodesign community! 🌍

“I’ve long been inspired by Intuitive Surgical’s mission and its remarkable ability to bring forth transformative solutions that improve patient outcomes. I'm grateful to have the opportunity to work with both the venture and growth platform teams, applying different lenses as I conduct research.” - Bingyi Wang, PhD Bingyi, Sophia Brodsky, BSN, RN, and Jonathan Freise are all at Intuitive, embedded within different teams for their Biodesign externship! The opportunity to work with Innovation Fellowship alumni like Vivian Emmely Golfin, MD, is of course part of the charm! — We’re recruiting for the 2026-27 Innovation Fellowship. Interested? Check the link in the comments to learn more.  #innovationeducation #healthtech

2026-27 Innovation Fellowship applicants: we’ve planned a session with alumni to give you an unvarnished perspective on the fellowship experience. Join us at 9am PT | 12pm ET on Wednesday June 11 and hear from Marisa Markovich, Ignacio Pérez, Andréas Ward, and Anastasia Ntracha! Registration link in the comments. #innovationeducation #healthtech #biotech #digitalhealth

Identify. Invent. Implement. Anastasia Ntracha gives a 60sec overview of the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship! — We’re recruiting for the 2026-27 cohort. Interested? Check the link in the comments to learn more.  #innovationeducation #healthtech #biotech #digitalhealth

Joan Vieyra Galí is at Attennova, a Singapore Biodesign spin-off company, for his externship! “I am hoping to get exposure to Southeast Asia’s healthcare ecosystems and understand how this region and the countries within it work.” 🙌 — We’re recruiting for the 2026-27 Innovation Fellowship. Interested? Check the link in the comments to learn more.  #innovationeducation #healthtech

Building a new Biodesign program from the ground up is not an elementary undertaking. For our current cohort of Global Faculty Trainees— educators from universities and academic medical centers around the world who are learning the Biodesign process and how to teach it—lessons from alumni will constitute some of the most powerful elements in their toolkit. Many thanks to Yujiro Maeda of Tokyo Biodesign, Julio Frias Dias of Einstein Biodesign, and Debby Keller of Arizona State University’s Innovation for Medical and Patient Care Technologies (IMPACT) Program for joining our trainees this morning to share their experiences. Key takeaways included collaborating with a local innovation community; redesigning program offerings as needed to attract the best candidates; and building programs around the best product—the people. #innovationeducation #globalbiodesign #healthtech