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
Jordan Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Chris Parker, Pharm.D.
Student Operations Team
Mukundan Kasturirangan
Imani Patterson
Carrington Stilabower
Operations Team Alumni
Ivan Badovinac
MADE: Manufacturing Engineer
After Graduation: Gap year in Denver, pursue PhD in BioMechanics
Jesse Haworth
MADE: Manufacturing Engineer team
After graduation: Associate R&D Engineer, Medical Murray, North Barrington, IL
Akar Jani
MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team
After Graduation: Research Associate, Urology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Trenton Montgomery
MADE: Manufacturing Engineering team
After Graduation: Manufacturing Engineer, Stryker Neurovascular, Salt Lake City, UT
Ashika Sudheesh
MADE: Quality Engineering team
After Graduation: PrIME Rotational Engineer, Collins Aerospace, Dayton, OH
Rachel Cron
MADE: Quality Team
After graduation: Commissioning and Qualification Engineer, Commissioning Agents Inc, Indianapolis, IN
Ben Hinz
MADE: Quality Engineer
After Graduation: Process Development Engineer, Boston Scientific, St. Paul, MN
Nicole Koenigsman
MADE: Quality team
After graduation: Sustaining Engineer, Teleflex, Maple Grove, MN
Ashley Preston
MADE: Senior Product Manager
After Graduation: Technical Specialist, Shumaker and Sieffert Law Firm, St. Paul, MN
Megan Gerdes
MADE: Product Manager
After graduation: Distribution Analyst, Nuveen, Chicago, IL
Dillon Mastropolo
MADE: Product Manager
After graduation: Medical Sales Representative, Jigsaw Medical, Sugar Grove, IL
Parker Reineke
MADE: Quality Team
After graduation: Biomedical Engineer, iotaMotion, Iowa City, IA
