The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation will drive the transformation of health and healthcare by future-proofing the healthcare workforce and fostering and facilitating high-value innovation that will improve health outcomes and economic development.

To accomplish this, we will develop a robust health innovation ecosystem both internally and externally and adopt a human-centered design approach to our activities and innovations. 

Purpose

Innovation-driven healthcare transformation

Strategic Focus Areas

• Education and training

  • Credit Bearing programming

  • Noncredit bearing programming

• Innovation Infrastructure

  • Innovation Clinic at UAB Medicine

  • Human-centered discovery to commercialization platform

  • Alabama Digital Ventures

  • Digital Venture fund

• Internal and External Partnerships

Our Innovation Priorities

• Novel programming and pedagogy 

• Digital and automated innovation management 

• Four signature clusters:

  • AI

  • Digital

  • Big data

  • Metahealth