Organization: UC Berkeley Health Tech CoLab

The Health Tech CoLab is a center at UC Berkeley that provides a collaborative space for student teams and startups working on medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health tools aimed at increasing access to health care.

This initiative comes at a time when the pandemic has revealed severe shortcomings in our health care systems, opening the door to fundamental changes in how, when, and where healthcare is delivered.

With the accelerating need for new diagnostics and tools, the Health Tech CoLab is a collaborative space where rapid ideation, prototyping, and testing of health innovations can be carried out by multidisciplinary teams. The Health Tech CoLab is a physical space to bring together students, faculty, clinicians, regulators, manufacturers, and the investment community to consider new ideas — from initial concepts through multiple cycles of prototyping.

In addition to a virtual and in-person space for student teams to harness their human experiences, trade stories, and start dialogues, the CoLab hosts workshops and talks and is a place for teams and industry to connect and share each other’s know-how.

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