This document summarizes the Stanford India Biodesign program, which is a 12-year medical technology innovation collaboration between Stanford University and institutions in India. The program aims to train leaders in medical device innovation in India and develop technologies to address unmet clinical needs. It has included over 300 fellowship applicants, trained 25 fellows and 28 interns, filed 20 provisional patents, and developed 15 medical devices. Examples of projects include devices for fecal incontinence, intraosseous access, limb immobilization, newborn hearing screening, and neonatal resuscitation. The program has also organized annual summits and helped launch a national biodesign curriculum in India.
4. Examples of Medical Technology Innovation
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5. Opportunity for Innovation
✤ Healthcare growth drivers
are creating opportunities
for innovation
✤ Low cost, high-quality
medical devices need to
be created to address
unmet needs in India
6. The Biodesign Process is a
systematic approach to medical
technology innovation
12 year old innovation program based at Stanford University
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The Biodesign Process
8. 1. NEEDS FINDING 2. NEEDS SCREENING
2.1
2.3 Stakeholder
IDENTIFY
Disease State
Analysis
1.2 Observation 1.3 Fundamentals 2.5
1.1
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Strategic Focus
Identification Development Filtering
2.2
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Treatment
Market Analysis
Options
4. CONCEPT SELECTION
3. CONCEPT GENERATION
4.1 4.3
Intellectual Reimbursement
INVENT
3.1 3.2 Property Basics Basics 4.6
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Ideation & Concept Final Concept
Prototyping
Brainstorming Screening Selection
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5. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY & PLANNING 6. INTEGRATION
5.7 Marketing &
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Operating Plan &
Funding Sources
Financial Model
5.5 Quality & 5.8
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R&D Strategy
Management Strategy
6.2 6.4 Licensing &
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Development Pathways
5.9 Competitive
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Business Strategy
Identify → Invent → Implement
10. Goals
✤ Identify and train potential leaders in the medical technology
innovation in India
✤ Develop medical technologies to solve unmet clinical needs in
India
✤ Fuel the growth of the Indian medical technology industry
11. Department of
Stanford University Biotechnology
IIT, Delhi Ministry of Science
AIIMS, Delhi and Technology
Collaborators and Supporters
12. Program Offerings
✤ Stanford-India Biodesign Fellowships
✤ India Biodesign Internships at AIIMS/IIT
Delhi
✤ Global student and faculty exchanges
✤ Annual Indian MedTech Summit
✤ National SIB Center in Delhi
✤ Management workshops
✤ www.indiabiodesign.org networking
community
20. Launch of National Biodesign Curriculum
Innovation Course taught at several engineering colleges
21. Results
✤ >300 applicants to the fellowship each
year; 4 selected
✤ 25 Fellows trained
✤ 28 Interns trained
✤ 20 provisional patents filed
✤ 6 Summits held
✤ 15 devices developed
✤ 1 Venture backed company (Consure)
✤ 3 Licensed products
22. Co-Founders:
Nish Chasmawala, Amit Sharma, Dr Sandeep
Singh
Closed first round of venture funding in
August 2012
16M patients affected every year
No affordable device available
• Developed for all stool types and sphincter tones
• Easy and hygienic to use (profile and placement)
• Reduces nursing time (leakage and dislodgement)
• Minimal training required
Project 1: A novel way to manage fecal incontinence in
non-ambulatory patients
23. Placement Insertion Remove Guide Infuse
• Manual operation Team: Jayant Karve, Srinivas Kiran, Dr
• Ergonomic design
• Sterility maintenance Sandeep Singh
• Needle guidance & visibility
Project 2: A better way to gain intraosseous access in
emergency patients
“IO infusion should be the first alternative to IV in cardiac arrest patients”
24. 15 Million 5.4 Million
Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) per annum in India Incidence of Lower Limb Injuries in RTAs
Team: Pulin Raje, Dr Darshan Nayak
• A disposable splint
• Easy to use
• Ultra low cost
• Licensed to Hindustan Latex Limited in Nov 2012
Project 3: A better way to temporarily immobilize
lower limbs in trauma patients
25. Screening for all
100,000 are born
hearing impaired in India
each year
• Low cost hearing screening device
• Unique reusable electrode system Team: Nitin Sisodia, Dr Ramesh Agarwal, Dr Rakesh
• Novel algorithm Lodha
• Novel noise cancellation
Project 4: A novel hearing screening device for
newborns
26. Birth Asphyxia:
15,00,000 2,10,000
2.6 crore won’t breathe
annual births babies die
at birth
every year
Effective resuscitation can save almost all these
Team: Ayesha Chaudhary, Dr Avijit Bansal, Dr Ramesh Agarwal, Dr Rakesh Lodha
• Automatically positions neck
• In built suction, no power required
• Easier better sealing
• Objective feedback
• Single operator use
• Built in timer and heart rate monitor
Project 5: An easy to use neonatal resuscitation system