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Why toys make good medical devices [CNN 4-02-2012]

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Jose Gomez-Marquez is a the principal medical device designer at the Little Devices lab at MIT and creator of MIT's first course on affordable medical device hardware, D-Lab Health. He is co-founder of LDTC+Labs LLC. His group's MEDIKit platform, a series of design building blocks that empower doctors and nurses in developing countries to invent their own medical technologies. His other research projects include inhalable vaccine technology, crowdsourced diagnostics, paper microfluidics, and affordable diagnostics for extreme environments. The work has been featured CNN, Wired, Discover Magazine, and the Economist. Jose serves on the European Union’s Science Against Poverty Taskforce and has participated as an expert advisor in the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. After working in institutional investments he went back to pursue studies in science policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and began his design career at MIT. Jose is a 3 time MIT IDEAS Competition winner, including two Lemelson Awards for International Technology. In 2009, he was selected to Technology Review’s T35, which also named him Humanitarian of the Year. In 2011 he was named a TED Fellow. He arrived to the United States from his native Honduras on a Rotary scholarship and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Favorite meal:
Coffee isn't a meal, but it comes close. I'm a meat and potatoes type of guy. Especially if the meat is grass fed.