The Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, the premier training program for aspiring health technology innovators, is recruiting for the 2026-27 cohort.
Biodesign Innovation Fellows are dynamic high-performers with backgrounds in healthcare, engineering, computer science, or business. Working in multidisciplinary teams in this hands-on, full-time program, fellows learn how to identify important unmet medical needs, invent technologies to address them, and bring those products into patient care.
Applications are open through
July 28, 2025.
The fellowship begins with an immersion in diverse care environments where fellows identify more than 100 unmet needs. Teams select the most promising needs; prototype and test solutions; explore patent, regulatory, and reimbursement issues; and develop operational and business plans to advance the project. Fellows work with the medicine, engineering, and business faculty at Stanford as well as prominent Silicon Valley inventors, CEOs, venture capitalists, and advisors.
Following interviews with the selection committee, 12 successful candidates will be awarded fellowships, including tuition and salary support.
To learn more, visit bit.ly/BiodesignFellow. If you have questions or are interested in connecting with some alumni of color who can share their experience or answer questions, contact Fellowships Manager, Meghan Stawitcke, at
meghans4@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign values the unique path of each applicant. We believe that diversity across multiple dimensions – including personal, academic, professional, geographic, and socioeconomic – inspires creativity in our teams, helps us innovate effectively for different patient populations, and is key to advancing health equity