“Biodesign is a revolutionary idea. It really [shows] that anyone can become an innovator as long as they’re immersed in a healthcare environment.”
- Ritu Kamal
2010 Stanford-India Biodesign Fellow
Director, Global Programs, Stanford Biodesign
Two decades ago, we founded Stanford Biodesign to create an ecosystem of training and support for Stanford University students, fellows, and faculty with the talent and ambition to become health technology innovators. Our goal was to provide the knowledge, skills, mentoring, and networking required to deliver meaningful and valuable innovations to patients everywhere.
Today, our trainees are drawn from all over the world. New health technologies developed during their time in our programs have helped more than 13 million people. The center leads the University as a model of interdisciplinary collaboration and translation.And our needs-driven innovation process has inspired numerous health technology training programs worldwide.
We are embarking on an exciting new chapter with new initiatives in health policy, life sciences innovation, and health equity that will broaden the scope of our impact. Watch the video below to learn more about the center’s remarkable influence and what’s to come. Are you ready to make a difference?
Learn about our setting at Stanford Bio-X, an interdisciplinary hub with connections across the schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Business and about Stanford University’s location in Silicon Valley, which gives us unprecedented access to world-class mentors and coaches who help our trainees more effectively address critical healthcare needs.
We’re also proud of the extraordinary impact our alumni are having in improving patient care around the world. And we continue to advance our programs and approach to help them keep pace with the rapidly changing health innovation ecosystem. Our thriving Stanford Biodesign community isn’t just responding to an evolving industry, we’re helping to define it.
Want to see how far we've come? See our Timeline & History page.
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From the story of our founding and growth to our promise for the future of health technology innovation, there’s so much to discover about Stanford Biodesign.