Discover, Collaborate, Share

The SSB Conference committee brings cutting-edge research, and thought-leaders in healthcare innovation to students through speaker series, student panels, and an annual spring Biodesign conference to showcase leaders in biomedicine and healthcare innovation. Past conference topics have included regenerative medicine, pediatric medical devices, medical robotics, and engineering for the developing world. We have hosted hundreds of attendees and faculty from Stanford and around the country in the past, including students, faculty, and industry professionals.

Take a peek at past conferences:

Biodesigning Solutions for Health Inequities

The 2021 SSB Conference focused on how the biodesign innovation process of needs finding and product realization could be applied to address health inequities and promote global access to healthcare. The virtual conference featured a variety of topics, from racial and socioeconomic disparities in healthcare access to reducing pathogen transmission in under-resourced settings to building low-cost biomedical devices.

Medical DEVICE INNOVATION: From NEED-Finding to Product Realization

The 2019 SSB Conference focused on the medical device development pathway, from identifying unmet clinical needs to FDA clearance and patient translation. With representatives from Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, UCSF, Medtronic, and more, Stanford students and members of the Bay Area community learned about the medtech industry from the perspective of venture capital, intellectual property, insurance reimbursement, engineering, and clinical testing.

predictive, preventative, and personalized medicine

The 2018 SSB Conference focused on personalized medicine from the perspective of research, industry, and public policy. Speakers from Stanford School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, UCSF, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NIH All of Us, and more presented future directions on the field of predictive and precision medicine.