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
Mikayla Kamon
Manager, Iowa MADE Program
Assistant Manager, Medical Innovation Launch Lab
Student Operations Team
Operations Team Alumni
Ivan Badovinac
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Manufacturing Engineer
After Graduation: Gap year in Denver, pursue PhD in BioMechanics
Rachel Cron
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Quality Team
After graduation: Commissioning and Qualification Engineer, Commissioning Agents Inc, Indianapolis, IN
Rebecca Flint
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Student Product Manager
Megan Gerdes
BA, Enterprise Leadership
MADE: Product Manager
After graduation: Distribution Analyst, Nuveen, Chicago, IL
Jesse Haworth
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Manufacturing Engineer team
After graduation: Associate R&D Engineer, Medical Murray, North Barrington, IL
Ben Hinz
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Quality Engineer
After Graduation: Process Development Engineer, Boston Scientific, St. Paul, MN
Akar Jani
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team
After Graduation: Research Associate, Urology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Mukundan Kasturirangan
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Product Manager
Marketing Associate - Cardiology Commercial Leadership Development Program, Boston Scientific
Nicole Koenigsman
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Quality team
After graduation: Sustaining Engineer, Teleflex, Maple Grove, MN
Bethany Langer
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Student Product Manager
Klaudia Lukaszczyk
BA, Journalism and Mass Communication
MADE: Student Marketing/Sales
Nathan Martinez
MADE: Student Product Manager
Dillon Mastropolo
BA, Finance, Marketing
MADE: Product Manager
After graduation: Medical Sales Representative, Jigsaw Medical, Sugar Grove, IL
Trenton Montgomery
BS, Mechanical Engineering
MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team
After Graduation: Manufacturing Engineer, Stryker Neurovascular, Salt Lake City, UT
Cristina Oijangbe
MADE: Student Product Manager
Imani Patterson
BS, Mechanical Engineering
MADE: Sales Engineer
After Graduation: Applications Engineer, Zonatherm Products, Chicago, IL
Ashley Preston
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Senior Product Manager
After Graduation: Technical Specialist, Shumaker and Sieffert Law Firm, St. Paul, MN
Parker Reineke
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Quality Team
After graduation: Biomedical Engineer, iotaMotion, Iowa City, IA
Carrington Stilabower
MADE: Student Equality Engineer
Ashika Sudheesh
BS, Industrial Engineering
MADE: Quality Engineering team
After Graduation: PrIME Rotational Engineer, Collins Aerospace, Dayton, OH
Achala Thippeswamy
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Quality Engineering team
After Graduation: R&D Engineer, Boston Scientific, Boston, MA
Ryland Threlkeld-Wiegand
BS, Biomedical Engineering
MADE: Product Manager
After Graduation: Rotational Engineer, Phillips-Medisize, Phillips, WI
Mohammed Aldobai
MADE: Student Quality System Engineer
Samuel Mendoza
MADE: Engineering & Product Associate
