About Iowa MADE

MADE offers unique opportunities to Iowa's faculty and staff innovators and student employees. Faculty and staff invent solutions to address needs and MADE offers a fast and accessible pipeline to get unique solutions from clinical settings to market presence. University of Iowa students have access to a hands-on opportunity working in a medical device company right on campus.
 

About our products

A multi-disciplinary student operations team assists with the manufacturing, pricing, marketing, sales, quality and regulatory affairs of all products. Through MADE, these students gain first-hand knowledge of bringing a product to market. All products are available for licensing through UIRF.

Meet our Team

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Jordan Kaufmann, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Executive Director
ChrisParkerProfile

Chris Parker, Pharm.D.

Title/Position
Associate Director

Student Operations Team

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Mukundan Kasturirangan

Title/Position
Student Product Manager
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Imani Patterson

Title/Position
Student Sales Engineer
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Carrington Stilabower

Title/Position
Student Quality Engineer

Operations Team Alumni

Ivan Badovinac

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineer

After Graduation: Gap year in Denver, pursue PhD in BioMechanics

Jesse Haworth

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineer team

After graduation: Associate R&D Engineer, Medical Murray, North Barrington, IL

Akar Jani

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team

After Graduation: Research Associate, Urology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

Trenton Montgomery

BS, Mechanical Engineering

MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team

After Graduation: Manufacturing Engineer, Stryker Neurovascular, Salt Lake City, UT

Ashika Sudheesh

BS, Industrial Engineering

MADE: Quality Engineering team

After Graduation: PrIME Rotational Engineer, Collins Aerospace, Dayton, OH

Rachel Cron

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Team

After graduation: Commissioning and Qualification Engineer, Commissioning Agents Inc, Indianapolis, IN

Ben Hinz

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Engineer

After Graduation: Process Development Engineer, Boston Scientific, St. Paul, MN

Nicole Koenigsman

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality team

After graduation: Sustaining Engineer, Teleflex, Maple Grove, MN

Ashley Preston

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Senior Product Manager

After Graduation: Technical Specialist, Shumaker and Sieffert Law Firm, St. Paul, MN

Achala Thippeswamy

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Engineering team

After Graduation: R&D Engineer, Boston Scientific, Boston, MA

Megan Gerdes

BA, Enterprise Leadership

MADE: Product Manager

After graduation: Distribution Analyst, Nuveen, Chicago, IL

Dillon Mastropolo

BA, Finance, Marketing

MADE: Product Manager

After graduation: Medical Sales Representative, Jigsaw Medical, Sugar Grove, IL

Parker Reineke

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Quality Team

After graduation: Biomedical Engineer, iotaMotion, Iowa City, IA

Ryland Threlkeld-Wiegand

BS, Biomedical Engineering

MADE: Product Manager

After Graduation: Rotational Engineer, Phillips-Medisize, Phillips, WI

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