Opportunities

The Stanford Biodesign Fellowship is a one-year experience in the invention and early stage development of new medical technologies. The program is based on teams of four individuals of mixed graduate engineers and clinicians. As a group, the team works through the process of identifying important clinical needs, inventing solutions, and taking the early first steps toward implementing the new technologies by means of further research projects, development in an industry setting or start-up companies.

Fellows have the opportunity to work with the faculty of over 100 experts drawn from the medicine and engineering faculty at Stanford as well as prominent inventors, company CEO's and other leader from the biomedical legal, and financial industries. The program is currently in it 6th year. Graduates of this program could continue within an academic or a practice setting as innovators involved in discovering new biomedical technologies. Past teams have developed significant new technologies that have developed significant new technologies that have gone on to form the basis of start-up companies or major licenses.

The application deadline for the 2007-2008 fellowship is coming up soon -- November 30, 2006 -- so please make any potential candidates aware of the program. Finalists will be interviewed at Stanford University and successful applicants will be awarded named fellowships. There is also an "early decision" opportunity for candidates who wish to apply for the 2008-2009 fellowship program.

A detailed program description and fellowship application at http://innovation.stanford.edu