Jose Gomez-Marquez

José Gomez-Marquez (born 1976) is a Honduran inventor, researcher, and educator and is best known for empowering medical professionals with MEDIkits.[1]

Early life and education

Before entering the United States, Gomez-Marquez was a native of Honduras.[2] He is from a medical family, his grandfather was a surgeon who served in different hospitals in Tegucigalpa where Gomez-Marquez was raised.[2]

Career and research

Jose Gomez-Marquez observed inventive behaviors during his time in Nicaragua when hospital staff utilized unconventional materials such as cut-up soda bottles as drainage valves and layered surgical gauze, to create neonatal UV protectors.[3] These experiences inspired his mission to empower inventiveness and access to tools in impoverished communities.[3] Gomez-Marquez developed a way to extract parts from toys and use these to build medical instruments for children at low cost.[4] He also designed a way for people to build their own diagnostic devices that can be put together inexpensively.[5] Jose is the creator of the first course on affordable medical device hardware at MIT.[6]

Awards and honors

Gomez-Marquez is a three-time MIT IDEAS Competition winner including two Lemelson Awards for International Technology.[7] 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.[8] In 2011, Gomez-Marquez was chosen as a TED Global Fellow.[7]

Selected publications

  • Gomez-Marquez, Jose "Ampli: A Construction Set for Paperfluidic Systems" published 2018
  • Jose Gomez-Marquez, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli: "Distributed Biological Foundries for Global Health" published 2019[9]

References

  1. ^ "Jose Gomez-Marquez Wants to Turn Doctors and Nurses into Makers". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  2. ^ a b Singer, Emily (2009-08-18). "José Gómez-Márquez". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
  3. ^ a b MIT, José Gómez-Márquez is Program Director for the Innovations in International Health Initiative at; D-Lab, Instructor at MIT’s (2011-03-14). "Encouraging Inventiveness". Boston Review. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
  4. ^ "How toys can save lives | CNN Business". CNN. 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
  5. ^ Trafton, Anne (2018-05-16). "Plug-and-play diagnostic devices". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  6. ^ "Our People – MIT Little Devices Lab". Retrieved 2025-10-19.
  7. ^ a b "José Gómez-Márquez | BMW Guggenheim Lab". www.bmwguggenheimlab.org. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  8. ^ Singer, Emily. "José Gómez-Márquez | Innovators Under 35". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
  9. ^ Gomez‐Marquez, Jose; Hamad‐Schifferli, Kimberly (2019-08-16). "Distributed Biological Foundries for Global Health". Advanced Healthcare Materials. 8 (18). doi:10.1002/adhm.201900184. ISSN 2192-2640.
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