The Innovation Fellows Program concentrates on developing medical devices for a broad variety of clinical areas. The goal is to train the next leaders in medtech by fostering leadership and teaching risk management for medical devices. Innovation Fellows learn a disciplined medical technology product development process which includes FDA requirements, reimbursement, intellectual property and business strategies in addition to creativity techniques and prototyping.
Accomplishments
The Innovation Fellows Program is an intense, immersion experience that identifies current medical device needs and innovates solutions. The Fellows translate ideas into inventions, develop prototypes, and conduct preliminary stages of testing.
Since the program’s inception in 2008, there have been:
- 297 Invention Disclosures
- 147 Patent Applications
- 160 Technology Licenses Executed
- 16 Patents Issued
- 77 Alumni Fellows
- 16 Start-up Companies
- 34 Products Licensed/Optioned/Donated
- over $35M Funding Raised by former Innovation Fellows
Become a Fellow
Be an Innovator!
Thank you for your interest in the University of Minnesota Bakken Medical Devices Center Innovation Fellows Program.
No Longer Accepting Applications for 2023-2024 Team.
2023-2024 Innovation Fellows
Suhas Bargur
Interventional Neuro-Radiologist
Joseph Broomhead
3D Bioprinting, Vascular Surgery
Qiman Gao
Facial Pain Fellow, Investigator, Dentist
Nathan Johnson
Manufacturing Engineer
Shahid Karim
Cardiac/Respiratory Physiology, UK Interventional Cardiologist
Jonathan Strutt
Pediatric Emergency Physician
Danny Sachs
Program Director