Stanford Biodesign, a Hothouse for Medical Devices, Shares its Secret Sauce for Invention

Stanford’s Program in Biodesign http://innovation.stanford.edu/bdn/index.jsp assesses its would-be and current fellows much as a lot of other elite graduate programs do. It looks at their academic record of achievement, their creative potential, and what they go on to accomplish in life.

But one thing really struck me as unusual when I was on campus last week for the graduation of this year’s fellows, at Stanford’s Cantor Center for Visual Arts. The Biodesign program, which seeks to train a new generation of hands-on inventors of novel medical technologies, places huge emphasis on a certain specific metric: How many patients have been treated with its students’ inventions.

Luke Timmerman

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