MADE at The University of Iowa Turns Clinicians’ Ideas into Medical Products

New medical devices and technologies are being unveiled on a daily basis, as readers of Medgadget know well. Medical professionals are provided so much newly discovered knowledge that they end up creating new devices to take advantage of that knowledge. The medical device industry has a problem keeping pace, so universities are trying to pull on the slack. One recently launched initiative to help with that is MADE at The University of Iowa. This is an innovative program that we wanted to learn more about, particularly since many other institutions are considering their own similar approaches. We spoke with Jordan Kaufmann, Director of Startups at the University of Iowa, who helped us get a better idea of what MADE is and how it came to be.