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Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign

Stanford Medicine

Editorially verified · Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
Stanford Medicine's Mussallem Center for Biodesign is a named health-technology innovation center with programs that teach a need-driven process for identifying health needs, inventing technologies, and moving solutions toward patient care. The center's official program pages describe offerings for aspiring and experienced innovators, including executive education, fellowships, and other training programs.
Organizational model
Academic
Location
Stanford, California
Program types
Innovation centerAcceleratorEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
Spinout
Focus areas
ClinicalMedical deviceDiagnosticsDigitalTherapeutics
Named initiatives or assets
Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign · Biodesign Innovation Fellowship
Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Stanford Medicine's Mussallem Center for Biodesign is a named health-technology innovation center with programs that teach a need-driven process for identifying health needs, inventing technologies, and moving solutions toward patient care. The center's official program pages describe offerings for aspiring and experienced innovators, including executive education, fellowships, and other training programs. Its Innovation Fellowship is a 10-month experience covering need finding, invention, and preparation to implement health technologies through start-ups, corporations, or other channels. The published description names medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, drug delivery, and biotechnology among the kinds of solutions fellows may develop. This profile records the center's documented education and company-creation pathways without inferring the commercial performance of any fellow, project, or company.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalMedical deviceDiagnosticsDigitalTherapeutics

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Named Programs and Initiatives

  • Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign

    Stanford Medicine center offering programs that apply a need-driven approach to health-technology innovation and help new technologies reach patient care.

  • Biodesign Innovation Fellowship

    A 10-month fellowship that teaches participants to identify important health needs, invent health technologies, and prepare implementation through start-ups, corporations, or other channels.

Startups, Spinouts, and External Offerings

  • Health technology start-ups

    The Innovation Fellowship page says fellows may build their own health-technology start-ups as one application of the program's training.

Contact the Program

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Program phone
(650) 736-1160
Official contact page
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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. The Future of Health Care | Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign Stanford Medicine. Accessed August 30, 2026.
  2. Innovation Fellowship | Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign Stanford Medicine. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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