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Johns Hopkins Medicine / Johns Hopkins University
Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
Documented successes: CBID student teams have taken multiple first-place finishes in nationwide business plan competitions; teams have won grants from the NIH, USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GE Foundation; annual Johns Hopkins Design Day showcases CBID team devices, with the 2026 edition documented on the center's site
Mandate and remit
Johns Hopkins CBID sits at the intersection of the Whiting School of Engineering and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and trains teams to invent, prototype and commercialize medical devices. Its intensive one-year Master of Science in Engineering program compresses two to three years of design education into a single year, with students completing clinical rotations inside Johns Hopkins Medicine and at international sites before building devices against observed needs. Clinical faculty and Hopkins physicians serve as project sponsors and mentors, so device concepts originate from real bedside problems. CBID's stated dual mission is education plus innovation, both in the service of human health, and student teams routinely spin their projects into funded startups.
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Documented successes
CBID student teams have taken multiple first-place finishes in nationwide business plan competitions; teams have won grants from the NIH, USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GE Foundation; annual Johns Hopkins Design Day showcases CBID team devices, with the 2026 edition documented on the center's site
Organizational home: Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID), Johns Hopkins Medicine / Johns Hopkins University
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