Healthcare company-building profile
UCLA Biodesign Innovation Fellowship
UCLA Health / David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Source-based profile
Program at a Glance
- Program type
- Accelerator
- Program category
- Health system accelerator
- Organization
- UCLA Health / David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Organization type
- Hospital or health system
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Company stage served
- Early stage
- Cohort or participation model
- Not publicly documented
- Investment or funding offered
- Not publicly documented
- Published investment terms
- Not publicly documented
- Equity or fee model
- Not publicly documented
- Clinical or hospital connection
- Yes
- Application status
- Active
Public description
About the program
UCLA Biodesign is an early-stage health technology innovation program that runs a year-long, full-time fellowship for interdisciplinary teams drawn from medicine, engineering, design and business. Fellows complete clinical immersion inside UCLA Health, identify and screen unmet needs, build prototypes, and work toward venture formation with mentorship from healthcare leaders and investors. The program provides 24/7 access to creative workspace and equipment, and explicitly welcomes prospective and current first-year residents and clinical fellows who have departmental support, alongside MS/PhD engineers, designers and MBAs. It is housed within UCLA Health's innovation infrastructure and is affiliated with the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
What the program publicly emphasizes
Focus areas and features
- Category: Health system accelerator
Publicly documented people and network
Program leadership and alumni
- Program leader
- Jennifer McCaney, PhD — Executive Director, UCLA Biodesign; Associate Director, UCLA CTSI
- Notable alumni named in public materials
- UCLA Biodesign hub received an i6 Challenge grant reported by the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute; fellowship cohorts run full-year September-to-June cycles with clinical immersion inside UCLA Health; Executive Director Jennifer McCaney also teaches healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship at UCLA Anderson
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