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Jose Gomez-Marquez

Jose Gomez-Marquez

Honduran inventor, researcher, and educator

Jose Gomez-Marquez (born 1976- present) is a Honduran inventor, researcher, and educator and is best known for empowering medical professionals with MEDIkits.[1] He currently serves on the European Union's Science Against Poverty Initiative Task Force.[2] He's dedicated to changing global health and advocates for healthcare professionals.[1]

Early life and education

Before entering the United States, Gomez-Marquez was a native of Honduras.[3] He is from a medical family, his grandfather was a surgeon who served in different hospitals in Tegucigalpa where Gomez was raised.[3] After entering the United States on a rotary scholarship in 1997, Marquez attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he studied policy research covering international technology, transfer and small-team innovation.[2]

Career and research

Gomez-Marquez has figured out a way to extract parts from toys and create these medical instruments for children at a low cost rate.[4] He also designed a way for people to build their own diagnostics and be put together in labs at a cheap cost.[5] The cofounder of the International Development Initiation at MIT, Amy Smith, hired him in 2007 to run Innovations in International Health.[4] Marquez is currently the co-director of Little Devices Lab at MIT.[1] He is one of the cofounders at MakerNurse, established in 2013.[6] He is also cofounder of LDTC+ Labs, and serves on the European Union's Science Against Poverty Initiative Task Force.[2] One of his many inventions that won him awards are the individual vaporizers that came already filled with the appropriate amount of vaccine.[3] These vaccines didn't need to be refrigerated and could be disposed of right after usage.[3]

Awards and honors

Gomez-Marquez is a three-time MIT IDEAS Competition winner including two Lemelson Awards for International Technology.[2] In 2009, he was named the Technology Review Humanitarian of the year and MIT Technology Review added him to the TR35 list of innovators under 35.[7] In 2011, Gomez-Marquez was chosen as a TedGlobal Fellow.[2] He won these awards for his designs of practical medical devices for use in impecunious countries.[4]

Selected publications

References

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    "Jose Gomez-Marquez Wants to Turn Doctors and Nurses into Makers". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
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    "José Gómez-Márquez | BMW Guggenheim Lab". www.bmwguggenheimlab.org. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
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    Singer, Emily (2009-08-18). "José Gómez-Márquez". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
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    "How toys can save lives | CNN Business". CNN. 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
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    Trafton, Anne (2018-05-16). "Plug-and-play diagnostic devices". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
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    Nuwer, Rachel (2016-04-14). "The First Makerspace In A Hospital". Popular Science. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
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    Singer, Emily. "José Gómez-Márquez | Innovators Under 35". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
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