Jose Gomez-Marquez leads the Little Devices Lab @ MIT. The group focuses on empowerment technologies for health including DIY medical technologies kits, crowdsourced diagnostics, paper microfluidics, and health technology in extreme environments. He is co-inventor the MEDIKit platform, a series of design building blocks that empower doctors and nurses in developing countries to invent their own medical technologies. Recent projects include a paperfluidic ebola diagnostic kit, the Open Diagnostics Initiative (opendx.mit.edu), and the Ampli platform for modular diagnostics. He has been selected to Technology Review’s TR35, is a TED Fellow and has participated as an expert advisor in the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is part of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science where he launched the HST MakerLab course to bring patients, data, and kits together. Most recently, Jose co-founded the MakerNurse project to advance nurse innovation in America with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a co-founder of Pop Up Labs MakerHealth.
Areas of Expertise
DIY Medical Technology, Medical Device Design, Medical Makerspaces, dengue, ebola, makerspaces, prototyping, rapid diagnostics, sensors, user innovation, zika