By joining IDEA Labs, you get access to a real-world problem and pathway towards a solution, while getting a jump on joining "the startup world".
Through IDEA Labs, you will have access to professional support from faculty around Ann Arbor. This includes clinicians, entrepreneurs, and professors.
On an IDEA Labs team, you will be working with clinicians, engineers, medical, business, and law students, and more. You will get to learn aspects of design, entrepreneurship and medical problem-solving.
$2000 distributed as teams reach milestones and need funds to progress. Yes, you read correctly: $2 grand! There is opportunity for additional funding as seen fit. Also, get access to legal support from executive board members as well as advisors and faculty at the University of Michigan.Pro Bono legal services are also offered by Husch Blackwell including LLC Filing & Provisional Patents.
Participating on an IDEA Labs team gives you a practical team management and technical experience that will be helpful regardless of you future career pathway.
BSE Biomedical Engineering, UM Class of 2017
M.D. Candidate, UM Class of 2020MSE Biomedical Engineering 2016
M.D. Candidate, UM Class of 2018
BSE Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2017
J.D. Candidate, UM Class of 2017
Epharmix™ provides disease-specific communication tools, improving outcomes for patients and saving providers time. Lack of patient-physician engagement decreases the effectiveness of medical interventions. Epharmix products, designed by leading physicians and clinically validated, are toll-free SMS and phone-based “interventions,” which physicians and nurses can prescribe. Epharmix operates in San Francisco (sales & research) and St. Louis (sales, research, & software development). They have raised over $1.1M.
Mindset™, an app by DataDog Health™, tackles mental health therapy access by providing anxiety interventions at moments of high stress. Mindset monitors autonomic signals through wearable technology and prompts the patient to pursue coping techniques while experiencing stress, while simultaneously recording data for review with physicians. DataDog received over $275,000 in investment and is starting clinical validation work in preparation for launch later this year.
Applied Particle Technology™ is improving air filtration in hospitals. Their technology will not only work substantially better than current HEPA filtration technologies, it will also cost significantly less in the long term. The filtration technology will work to filter both particulate and volatile compounds, ensuring perfectly clean air. Applied Particle Technologies has developed major corporate partnerships and recently won an Arch Grants Award and 1st place in the WUSTL Skandalaris Cup.
Gene-oscopy™ is developing a next generation colorectal cancer screening method that evaluates the mRNA in stool samples, getting rid of the need for colonoscopy in healthy patients. Patients provide a fecal sample to the doctor, the mRNA in the stool is extracted, and the expression profile of this sample determines if the patient requires further care.
CystoView™ transforms the traditional cystoscope into a digital and wireless device. Current bedside cystoscopy depends on a scope that must be looked through directly by the operator, making it uncomfortable to navigate. Other physicians are unable to see the live image, and images cannot be accessed for later review or patient education. CystoView has designed a wireless camera that reconstructs, records, and displays images on a live monitor.
Eureka™ makes patent search easier, streamlining the patenting process. Proper positioning of an initial patent can create long-term savings, both in legal fees and time. Eureka’s intuitive, graphical representation of previous and existing patent literature allows users to simply enter the desired search terms and see all related and existing patents. This enables users to see existing technologies and the areas of opportunity for new patents, providing a quicker path to refining a given product or process.