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June 25, 2008
Students Design Inexpensive Knee Prosthetic. The Biodesign-sponsored project in Tom Andriacchi's Medical Device course for the 2007-08 academic year was a prosthetic knee designed to meet the needs of the medically-underserved. The resulting device can be manufactured for around $30. The device was designed under the auspices of the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) in Jaipur, India, home of the renowned Jaipur prosthetic foot.
June 10, 2008
Congratulations to the Graduating Fellows for the 07-08 and 06-08 fellowship years: Venita Chandra, Zachary Edmonds, Brian Fahey, Marie Guion-Johnson, Dorothea Koh, Nandan Lad, Beverly Tang, Jamie van Hoften, and James Wall. Our best to all of them in their future careers as innovators! Fellows David Boudreault and Ronald Jou will remain in Biodesign for the second year of their two-year fellowship.
June 5, 2008
John Linehan, PhD., Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine of Northwestern University and Consulting Professor for Biodesign chaired a daylong session on developing medical technology at the MD&M East Conference. Through InHealth funding, researchers from the Biodesign program documented these pathways and differentiated them from drug development. Innovative biomedical technologies require recognition of opportunity, assessment of need and market potential, and knowledge of critical first steps in the invention, patenting, early prototyping, and development of concepts. Lead investigator Jan Pietzsch also presented.
May 1, 2008
Stefanos Zenios, Professor of Business and Biodesign faculty, recently co-authored "Cost-effective Medical Treatment: Putting an Updated Dollar Value on Human Life," in Knowledge@Wharton. From Wharton: "New research from Wharton and Stanford based on Medicare kidney dialysis data shows that the average figure -- $129,090 per additional year of quality life -- is higher than prior studies have shown. Perhaps more important, the study also puts a value on the cost-effectiveness of treatment across percentiles of the entire dialysis population in an attempt to develop a benchmark for health care coverage decisions." Read the entire Wharton article.
April 14, 2008
InHealth and AIMBE presented A Road Map for Device and Diagnostic Innovation: Opportunities for Industry and Regulators held Wednesday April 30 in Gaithersburg, MD. Jan Pietzsch, John Linehan and Josh Makower presented. In a landmark study funded by a grant from InHealth, a team based at Stanford University’s Biodesign Program has documented the device development process and differentiated it from pharma. In doing so, investigators met with representatives of industry and of the FDA. This seminal work presents the most comprehensive picture of device development ever completed and reveals opportunities and challenges for all.
April 2, 2008
Marie Guion-Johnson, Biodesign Innovation Fellow, spent 4 weeks in India over her 'externship' time for her fellowship. Her efforts in India included assessing processes in the Aravind Eye Hospital. Her final report suggested several new process improvements which will be implemented over the next year.
April 2, 2008
We are pleased to announce the 2008-2009 Biodesign Innovation Fellows: Jake Brenner, Kevin Chao, Greg Magee, Matthew Callaghan, Ruey Peh, Joelle Abra, John Avi Roop, Erika Palmer. Congratulations to all!
March 13, 2008
Venita Chandra and James Wall, second year fellows in Biodesign, recently completed a chapter in a new book entitled "Robotics in General Surgery." See more info.
February 22-29, 2008
Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford is being held with sponsorship from Biodesign and other entrepreneurship programs throughout Stanford. Events are free and open to all students, parents, alumni and members of the greater Stanford community.
February 12, 2008
Biodesign announces its slate of Workbench Innovators. Read more about the series on the workbench page.
January 17, 2008
Summer Job Search Strategies for Engineering & Science Students. Thursday, January 17; 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Clark Center, Room S360. Winter quarter is when many employers start to interview and fill their summer jobs and internships. You can prepare for your job search by coming to this workshop to hear strategies on employer selection and hiring practices, tips on how to find the right summer job for you, and key resources you can access right here on campus to help you develop your job search strategy. Please direct any questions to crstudents@mailman.stanford.edu.
January 15, 2008
Artiman Ventures becomes Partner We welcome Artiman Ventures as one of our Venture Partners supporting the efforts of Biodesign.
January 10, 2008
Biodesign publishes review of device regulation Researchers in Biodesign have released a review of the background, mission and statutory requirements of medical device regulation in the United States.
January 5, 2008
Welcome to our new Fellows Our newly launched Stanford-India Biodesign program welcomes its first set of fellows: Nish Chasmawala, Srini Jaggu, Jayant Karve, Amit Sharma and Sandeep Singh.
December 20-21, 2007
Stanford-India Biodesign hosts the first ever Medical Technology Summit in Delhi, India. Over 40 professionals participated from many areas of the medical device arena, including education, government industry and NGO. The summit was intended to catalyze the community to address needs in the development of device technology for India.
December 11 , 2007
Biodesign has partnered with the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network’s “Coaches on Call” program to provide entrepreneurial Stanford students with access to outside experts from a variety of related fields. Biodesign hosted Tom Rodgers from Advanced Technology Ventures during the fall quarter launch of the program. Ellen Koskinas from InterWest Partners and Mika Mayer with Morrison & Foerster will host sections on medical device venture capital and life sciences intellectual property, respectively in February. Coaches on Call is for Stanford students only. For more info, please see http://sen.stanford.edu/coaches
December 10 , 2007
Paul Yock is quoted in an article about Med Tech innovation in Design News. “The successful, effective people in medical technology invention start with a clinical need and understand how important it is. That is more than half of the secret to successful inventing.” The article, Getting Started in Medical Design, features the essential steps in developing products for one of the OEM's fastest-growing - and toughest - markets.
December 3, 2007
StemCor, a company started by Daniel Kraft a former Biodesign student, was recently featured in the San Jose Mercury News in an article entitled "Stanford startup develops novel bone marrow mining device" Read the article at the SJMerc site.
November 13, 2007
Dean Kamen inventor of the Segway and other medical technology innovations, is being featured in our first "From the Innovator's Workbench" of the season. November 13, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm.
October 19, 2007
Fogarty Lecture featuring Casey McGlynn, Member, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati speaking on FOCUS ON INNOVATION: The Innovator's Journey -- Lessons for the Entrepreneur. Clark Center Auditorium, 4-5pm. Open to the public.
October, 2007
BDN Website Users Welcome Biodesign has consolidated several websites into one, to allow for our resources to be found in one place. We welcome former http://bdn.stanford.edu/ (Biodesign Network) users - the network is now here!
September 26, 2007
The Stanford Biodesign Program and Stanford Career Development Center invite you to a special career fair for students and alumni seeking jobs and internships in the medical device industry. The event will be held in the Oak West Lounge in the Tresidder Student Union on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 from 3 pm to 6 pm.

Cost is $350 per table. The registration fee includes lunch for two, and additional lunches may be purchased at $15 each. If you wish to participate in the fair, please go to https://stanford-csm.symplicity.com/. Employers who have previously registered with NACElink can log in with their email address as their username and their password. For new users, please click the link to register, and once you fill out a profile, a password will be sent to you.

On your main account page, you will see a link that will indicate "MedTech Career Fair Registration." Click the link, sign up on line, pay on line at that time, or the system will give you instructions on how to submit a check. Registration is first-come, first-served. Reservations are not confirmed until payment is received. Please note that credit card payment may only be made at the time of online registration. Please mail checks, payable to Stanford Career Development Center, to:

Stanford University
Career Development Center
563 Salvatierra Walk, M/C 8530
Stanford, CA 94305
ATTN: Jim Frizzell

Upon payment, we will email you confirmation of your reservation and send you additional details, including directions and parking information. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.

We look forward to seeing you on November 13th.
 
August 22, 2007
Venita Chandra and James Wall, Second Year Innovation Fellows, will be giving a presentation about the Biodesign Innovation Program at MDDExpo 2007 :Santa Clara Convention Center, September 18-19, 2007. They will be discussing ways to identify new opportunities for innovation, to assess clinical needs and market potential and to take the critical first steps in the invention, patenting, early prototyping, and development of new concepts.
August 10, 2007
Jaipur Foot Patron visits Biodesign - We recently hosted D.R. Mehta and Armand Neukermans at the Biodesign Program. D.R. Mehta is the Founder and Patron of Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, a resource in Jaipur, India that provides prosthetics to patients for free. Armand Neukermans is founder of Telcor and a patron of the Center that D.R. Mehta founded. D.R. Mehta has agreed to be on the advisory board for Stanford India Biodesign.
July 16, 2007
The applications are now closed for the Stanford-India Biodesign Fellowship. We received over 300 applications.
July 1, 2007
Welcome to the incoming Biodesign Innovation Fellows. Surgical Fellows join on 7/1/07; all others are here 7/23/07. We have 11 new fellows this year joining our two resident second year Surgical Fellows: Venita Chandra and James Wall.
June 26, 2007
Institute for Pediatric Innovation launches in Cambridge, MA; Biodesign is consulting with the group and it may involve Lucile Packard Children's Hospital soon.
June 19, 2007
Congratulations to the Graduating Fellows for the 06-07 and 05-07 fellowship years: Stephen Eichmann, Joel Goldsmith, Basil Hantash, Zach Malchano, David Meister, Carlos Mery, Oscar Miranda-Dominguez, Santiago Ocejo, Bilal Shafi, Tatum Tarin, Richard Vecchiotti, Ross Venook, Kenneth Wu. Our best to all of them on their future careers as innovators!
June 12, 2007
The Emerging Entrepreneurs two-day workshop is coming October 5-6! Apply now for a spot at this dynamic and exciting event. Seats are limited.
June 4, 2007
White Team Fellows in Finals for Boomers Competition
The White Team (Venita Chandra, Rich Vecchiotti, Tatum Tarin, Ross Venook, Joel Goldsmith) has been selected as a finalist in the BoomerVentures competition through Santa Clara University. They were selected from 12 semi-finalists to move to the next stage. Winners will be announced June 19. Grand Prize is $10,000.
May 31 , 2007
New Website Launched
May 31, 2007
Stanford-India Biodesign Program
The Government of India announces our new joint program. Read the Indian Press Release, Read our Press Release
May 31, 2007
Fellowship Application for Fellowship Year 2008-09 now open
May, 2007
Team Wins Award
Congrats to the LaserSeal team of Dr. Milana Trounce, Avishai Shoham, Kristen Gasior and Adam de la Zerda on their award at Women 2.0 conference. Their device promises faster, cleaner wound closures in the operating room with laser technology
March 26, 2007
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November, 2006
The Graduate School of Business Magazine features Stanford Biodesign in an article entitled "Crossing Disciplines to Breed Biomed Ideas."
November, 2005
Paul Yock is interviewed in the book "The Medical Device R&D Handbook," edited by Ted Kuclick.