Health Maker Lab

10 ideas will win $10,000 in idea support.

The 2021 Health Make-a-Thon is underway! Citizen scientists from across Illinois are invited to submit their ideas to improve health. Ten teams will walk away with $10,000 in resources and support to develop their ideas. This is what the democratization of healthcare looks like at the first engineering-based college of medicine.

Quality
prototypes.
Quality life.

The Health Maker Lab at Illinois is a maker lab network where the only limit to harnessing technology to improve human health is your imagination. Students and citizen scientists alike can collaborate, ideate and create unique solutions to global health challenges by prototyping anything at any scale—from molecules to cells to tissues to systems.

Bring your idea to life.

You don't need to know how to split a proton.

(We know someone who does!)

From the greatest university in the world come a team of brilliant minds, artists, and engineers who are excited to help make your idea a reality.

Rashid Bashir, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

RASHID BASHIR, Ph.D.

Dean, Grainger College of Engineering

Goldstein_Molly

MOLLY GOLDSTEIN, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering; Product Design Lab Director

Dr. Marty Burke, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MARTY BURKE, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry, Associate Dean for Research

Neal Cohn, Health Maker Lab at Carle Illinois College of Medicine

NEAL COHEN, Ph.D.

Director, the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

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