We are excited to announce that the textbook, Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies, is being published this month by Cambridge University Press. The book includes 29 chapters of content that describe the Biodesign process from Needs Finding and Screening through Business Modeling and Licensing. A companion website has been launched to accompany the book and will host the "Getting Started" section of each chapter of the book with active links as well as video and links to other resources. You can order the book at Cambridge University Press. See also http://www.ebiodesign.org/.

Biodesign at TCT! This year, for the first time, Biodesign ran The Biodesign Innovation Workshop at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Meeting in San Francisco. See the complete program at the TCT website. Standing-room only, as engineers, physicians and local device specialists heard about the Biodesign process.

Stage-Gate Process for the Development of Medical Devices, an article by Jan Pietzsch, Lauren Shluzas, Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Paul Yock and John Linehan has been published in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of Medical Devices. The discussed model was constructed based on best-practice analysis and interviews with more than 85 seasoned experts actively involved in the development, commercialization, regulation, and use of medical devices. Read more about it at the In Health website.

We are pleased to announce the 2009-10 Biodesign Innovation Fellows: Pedram Afshar, Ellis Garai, Partha Ray, Sandra Ruggles, Akhi Sista, Aravind Swaminathan, Fletcher Wilson and Rhunjay (James) Yu. They are currently screening the over 600 needs they have found in the Cardiovascular area.

The Fellows White Team 2008-09 (Greg Magee, Erika Palmer, Jake Brenner and Ruey Peh) has been awarded first prize for HemorX, a medical device company with a better solution for hemorrhoids, in the Boomers Competition hosted by Santa Clara University. The award is $10,000.

The team also received the $25,00 first prize for HemorX in the Stanford University E-challenge business plan competition.

We’ll begin the 2010 season of our Workbench series on February 10, 2010 with MIT Professor Robert Langer. Mark your calendars! Registration is now open for our first event of the 2010 season.

Next up will be Rich Meelia, CEO of Covidien (date TBD).

We are happy to announce that Voyage Medical has become a Community Partner.

We are also pleased to welcome Longitude Capital as a new Venture Partner.

Stanford-India Biodesign has been featured prominently in the latest edition of Connect (pdf), the newsletter from the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum.

The Stanford India Biodesign Fellows 2008 won first prize in the business plan competition – “India Innovation Pioneers Challenge 2009” held at Intel campus, Bangalore. The team comprising Srinivas Kiran Jaggu, Jayant S. Karve and Dr. Sandeep Singh presented a novel device to access circulation in clinical emergencies where IV access fails. The team will get an opportunity to showcase their plan at Intel+UC-Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge in Berkeley,CA to be held in November 2009. Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and Intel jointly organized the competition.

An Intern team from Stanford India Biodesign, composed of Shitij Malhotra, Mansi Aggarwal and Pooja Singh, won the first prize at the BEST program for their concept “Vein Location - Cost effective, non-invasive, easy to use portable device.” This national level program aimed at encouraging young post-graduate and doctoral students in developing biotechnology entrepreneurship and exposing them to issues involved in commercialization of bio-science culminated in an entrepreneurship workshop at Bangalore from the 25th to 27th July 2009. Mr Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Director General, mentored the conduct of the program. The winning teams will be given an opportunity to present their concepts at BioInvest 2009, the annual summit of Biotech entrepreneurs, professionals and institutional investors, at Mumbai on 5th Nov 2009.

Driptech, a low-cost drip irrigation technology started by Peter Frykman (former Biodesign TA), was recently given the 2009 Tech Awards Laureate by the San Jose Tech Museum, recognizing innovative use of technology for the benefit of humanity.

Long time mentor and supporter of Biodesign, Eberhard Grübe, wash honored with the first-ever Geoffrey O. Hartzler Master Clinical Operation Award for technical excellence and commitment for his work that has advanced the field of interventional cardiology. The award was given by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.

The Re:motion team consisting of Joel Sadler, Eric Thorsell and Ellis Garai (09-10 Innovation Fellow) won $20,000 at the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Competition (Social E-Challenge) for the Jaipur-knee. The product is a polymer-based knee joint that can be manufactured for less than $20. The JaipurKnee is in field trials in India and has been fitted on over 150 patients to date. They were recently featured in Businessweek and Fast Company among others.

Respira, the company started by the students who worked with the Biodesign Mexico Fellows in 2007, tied for first place in the Social E-Challenge with Re:Motion.

Sankalp 2009, India’s Largest Social Enterprise and Investment Forum, announced awards for innovative key entrepreneur ideation in the healthcare sector. The Sankalp 2009 Emerging Award for Healthcare was won by Biosense Technologies, an enterprise that is actively focused on combating anemia-the cause of 40% maternal and infant mortality. Darshan Nayak, 09 SIB Fellow, is the founder of Biosense.

Drew Hall, a fourth-year student in electrical engineering, and Richard Gaster, a medical and bioengineering student, were presented with $10,000 at the IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition award ceremony for their handheld diagnostic device. The invention, called the NanoLab, is a miniature, portable bioassay that can identify several disease proteins simultaneously without doctors, technicians or special lab equipment. The same team won the BME-Idea award for 2009 for their invention.

Stroke Coach, an iPhone application, received three awards in the CS 194 class' Software Faire. The application, devised by David Boudreault (Fellow, 2007-2009) and developed by undergraduate students Adam Bernstein, Eric Ellenoff, John Laxson and Aaron Sarnoff, assists patients at risk from stroke in recognizing the symptoms of a true stroke and encourages and enables them to seek treatment. The application won three awards including the VC award and Best in Show.

Paul Yock, Director of the Biodesign Program, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in early October.

David Miller, 01-02 Fellow, has recently moved to Austin Texas, to join Apollo Endosurgery. He is a program manager there.

Spiracur, developer of a device used to heal small wounds effectively, has brought in $20.3 million in a second round of funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Leaf Venture Partners and De Novo Ventures. Spiracur has raised $24.3 million since its inception in 2007. Spiracur founders were in the 2006-07 Innovation Class.

The Insite team is pleased to announce that they have just completed feasibility trial in humans for the Epiphany epidural system. They treated 7 patients with success in accessing the epidural space with no major complications. They will be moving onto design modifications for a commercial device, 510(k) submission and further fund raising. InSite founders were 06-07 Fellows.

Uday Kumar, 05-06 Fellow, announces the addition of a little one to the family. Janavi (“Jana”) Mira Kumar was born August 28.