Health Maker Lab

THE HEALTH MAKER LAB: EMPOWERING MEDICAL STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS

The Health Maker Lab at Carle Illinois College of Medicine serves as the launchpad for innovations aimed at advancing health care and medical education. Medical students team up with peers in engineering, business, and the sciences to innovate and prototype marketable solutions to real health care challenges.

LEARN ABOUT HEALTH MAKE-A-THON EVENTS

At the Health Maker Lab, you will translate ideas into innovations, designs into prototypes, multi-disciplinary teams into start-ups, and clinical practice into medicine that is more compassionate, humane, and accessible, for the greater good.

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, PH.D.

Dean, Grainger College of Engineering, Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering

 
MOLLY GOLDSTEIN, PH.D.

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

 
MARTY BURKE, M.D., PH.D.

May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation, Professor of Chemistry

 
NEAL COHEN, PH.D.

Inaugural Director, the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Professor of Psychology

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