Biodesign was launched by Dr. Paul Yock and other members of Stanford University in 2001 as a development and training program for talents who will lead innovations in medical devices based on Design-Thinking approach. The program develops solutions to various problems, using the needs in the clinical site as the starting point while verifying the perspective of commercialization from the initial stages of development, and is characterized by approaches that make innovation a reality.
Applications are sent from around the world to participate in a course lasting approximately one year, called “Fellowship.” Competition is fierce, with more than eighteen times competition rate, and only eight candidates are selected each year. Forty companies were started up during the 14-year period, and applications for over 400 patents were filed. In addition, over 500,000 patients receive benefits from devices that were created through this program. The program has already been introduced to India, Singapore, Ireland and the UK, and their introduction is currently being studied in countries all over the world.
BIODESIGN The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies,Yock.Petal.より
Osaka University, The University of Tokyo and Tohoku University concluded program-development partnership with Stanford University in order to establish Japan Biodesign. With implementing entities being made up of Osaka University’s Graduate School of Medicine and the Global Center for Medical Engineering and Informatics, The University of Tokyo’s Medical Innovation Initiative, and Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Japan Biodesign cooperates with Biodesign Japan to conduct Fellowship, Classes and various seminars.
Sawa Yoshiki
Dean, Graduate School of Medicine Chairman,
Japan Biodesign Steering committee
Yagi Masakazu
Visiting faculty member,
Graduate School of Medicine
Program Director, Japan Biodesign
Kenji Yamada MEI, Visiting professor
Kimura Hiromichi
Visiting professor,
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Japan Biodesign Steering committee
Maeda Yujiro
Project Assistant Professor,
Medical Innovation Initiative,
Program Co-Director, Japan Biodesign
Izumi Shinichi
Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering,
Japan Biodesign Steering committee
Nagatomi Ryoichi Vice Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering,
Nakagawa Atsuhiro
Lecturer,
University Hospital, Neurosurgery and Emergency Medicine,
Program Co-Director, Japan Biodesign
Nakao Koji
Chairman, The Japan Federation of Medical Devices Associations,
Advisory board,
Japan Biodesign Steering committee
Omori Sayaka Japan Biodesign Industrial Faculty
Nishiuchi Daisuke Program Co-Director, Japan Biodesign Industrial Faculty
Paul G. Yock
Founder, Director, Stanford Biodesign
Japan Biodesign Steering committee
Gordon Saul
Executive Director, Stanford Biodesign
Japan Biodesign Steering committee
Dan Azagury Assistant Director, Stanford Biodesign
Ikeno Fumiaki
Program Director (US), Stanford Biodesign
Advisory Director, Japan Biodesign
Lyn Denend Associate Director, Stanford Biodesign
Yamamoto Kazuki Secretary General, Biodesign Japan
Japan Biodesign program is inviting expert lecturers from various quarters.