AxisMED is simply a biomedical pre-incubation programme intended to capable the gaps betwixt a university’s world resources and entrepreneurial accelerator programs by connecting students done interdisciplinary teams and the tools indispensable to navigate early-stage aesculapian ventures. AxisMED’s programme strengthens UIUC’s existing entrepreneurship ecosystem by establishing a new, accessible introduction constituent for students to summation acquisition successful aesculapian entrepreneurship and innovation earlier pursuing further acceleration.
Ferritiva: Serum Ferritin Analysis for Anemic Athletes
Ferritiva develops accessible devices that surface for robust deficiency truthful that everyone tin unrecorded a steadfast life.
Nephra: Non-Invasive at-Home Kidney Health Monitoring for Patients connected Dialysis
Nephra is engineering instrumentality learning models to non-invasively quantify potassium levels for patients connected dialysis.
Voca: Vocal Health Monitoring for Vocal Performers
Voca is creating an nonsubjective vocal wellness instrumentality to assistance dainty vocal disorders earlier they go permanent.
In August 2020, 4 students from the Class of 2024 banded unneurotic to forge a caller pathway for entrepreneurial acquisition astatine the caller Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Many students starting astatine Carle Illinois person small oregon nary acquisition successful starting ventures. These 4 students (listed from apical to bottom), Al Smith, Diana Wu, Alex Teague, and Ariana Barreau, were driven to enactment aboriginal acquisition for students funny successful entrepreneurship and design. With acquisition successful respective startups, curricular development, the Saint Louis Incubator and Accelerator landscape, and the Stanford Biodesign Program, this squad acceptable retired to make a caller incubator intended for Phase 1 aesculapian students, undergraduate students, and postgraduate students from Carle Illinois College of Medicine and the University of Illinois astatine Urbana-Champaign. AxisMED began to instrumentality shape, and hosted their archetypal full-cohort successful 2021-2022 with 4 teams. Ferritiva and Nephra, 2 teams that underwent incubation with AxisMED, person achieved wide occurrence crossed our field community, raising implicit $50,000 successful backing each truthful far.
The AxisMED Program follows the world curriculum, starting successful the Fall and ending successful the Spring. The Program compresses the Sanford Biodesign Process into an 8-month programme with 5 Design Review checkpoints. Between Design Reviews, determination are Longitudinal Programs and AxisMED-hosted Workshops.
Design Reviews
Events wherever teams transportation their ideas to professionals moving successful Medicine, Engineering oregon Business. Critique is often fixed successful a "Shark-Tank" style.
Longitudinal Programs
AxisMED has partnered with respective UIUC programs to collaborate connected cardinal improvement programs, including the I-Corps Lean Launchpad, Siebel Center for Design, and different student-run incubator programs.
Workshops
AxisMED developed respective Biodesign inspired talks to enactment captious moments successful the entrepreneurial plan process.
AxisMED's enactment is arrogant to beryllium student-developed and student-run. Our enactment believes that peer-to-peer mentorship is simply a cardinal to occurrence successful aesculapian innovation and entrepreneurship. The leaders travel from wide backgrounds, including medicine, engineering, and business, and each person acquisition successful R&D teams successful manufacture oregon successful startups of their own.
Lisan Smith, PhD
Faculty Advisor
Amartya Dave
Recruitment Chair
Ariana Barreau
President
Mukul Govande
Faculty Advisor
Shreya Rangarajan
Vice President
Dhruv Patel
General Exec
Tehan Dassayanaka
Curriculum Chair
Arun Palaniappan
General Exec
Al Smith
Treasurer
Sathvik Pai
General Exec
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