Insights

Katrine Lind

Clinical Buddies

Design engineer Paul has never worked with healthcare before he entered BioMedical Design as a fellow. His external view is great for spotting needs that clinicians might not notice, but he needs a clinical buddy who can help him understand and validate his observations. That's why the buddy system exists. Paul got paired with two other fellows with clinical backgrounds, and that allows him to challenge and assess wether his observations are isolated problems or part of a broader unmet need.

Katrine Lind Møgelgaard

Host Hospitals 2026 – 2027

Host hospitals for the coming cohort are found. Rose Henrichsen who manages hospital partnerships in the BioMedical Design team, puts in a great effort to find the right hospital wards in the regional hospitals every year. We asked her about how she handles this important yet challenging task.

Katrine Lind Møgelgaard

Host Hospitals for the 2025-2026 Cohort

Host hospitals 2025-2026 for the coming cohort of BioMedical Design fellows are North Zealand Hospital, Regional Hospital Viborg, and Aarhus University hospital.

Andreas Niklassen

With innovation I might impact thousands of lives

As a doctor I help patients and it's very rewarding and meaningful. But it occurred to me that by working in innovation I might address broader healthcare challenges and help many more patients with a need for new solutions.

Team Phoenix

Becoming a health-innovation team

We realised what ingredients and how the distribution of roles and responsibilities was the strongest driver for group success.  

Andrew Stretton

Finding unmet healthcare needs

Despite being an engineer; a man; and having zero professional medical experience, this week I began observations in a gynaecology and obstetrics department as a part of my year at the BioMedical Design Programme.

Team InnoPatient

With great teamwork comes great responsibility!

When our group constellation, Team InnoPatient, was announced, we all had a lot of questions and wondered why the BioMedical Design program had placed us together, but it turned out that they had seen something…

Team Vital DeSign

Team Vital DeSign

Interdisciplinary group Our group is very interdisciplinary, as we have quite different backgrounds. Kristine is an industrial Designer with experience as a start-up manager, Maria is a PhD with experience from the medical device industry…

Team Norn Technologies

Upgrading our professional backgrounds…

Align and learn together  Our team consisted of Søren who is a medical doctor with experience in different specialities and Tine who is a researcher with a background in biomedical engineering. As the programme is…

Team Inventricle

5 years wiser in only 10 months!

The BioMedial Design Programme is an intense 10-month experience loaded with tons of invaluable learnings. Here are some of the reasons we think we got 5 years wiser i 10 months.

Nanna Amby

How to pick up electronic skills

With the introduction to electronic prototypes Nanna Nordman Amby has gained knowledge about what is possible and can be a part of developing solutions that might have electronic parts in it.

Catharina Holland

There is no ‘I’ in teamwork

My team counts three team members, all with different backgrounds and different ways of thinking, which I see as a big strength. However, being a team member also means being well aligned with your teammates, figuring out how to share knowledge and observations between each other and last but not least how to settle on the needs you want to bring forward into the creative skills phase.

Neil Arvin Bretaña

New Year – New Creative Phase

As we rang in 2021 from home, the Biomedical Design fellows also entered the creative phase – from home. I have always thought of myself as a naturally creative person. But, having been in academia…

Niklas Kline Lange Frost

Just watch and do nothing – from the days of fieldwork

I’ve been a nurse for seven years and I take a bit of pride in being good at placing IVs and a bit more pride in being helpful towards my colleagues. But here I am doing neither, because as a BioMedical Design fellow, my role is to observe things and not actually do things. And that makes a whole lot of sense.

Simone Okkels

“It is a new model we want to see expand to all of the Nordics”

In this article in NOME Magazine, BioMedical Design is features as one of the initiatives funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation that builds on thoughts of cross-pollinating. It strengthens start-up projects when including entrepreneurial mindsets, research, healthcare professionals and business experts. A vision very much in focus throughout the BioMedical Design Programme.

Naja Villadsen

Communicate like a Child

The Creative Skills phase helped fellow Naja Villadsen integrate creativity in her professional life and opened up for communication with drawings and fast prototypes instead of words. Just like children do.

Kasper Linde

How to treat a need

Writing a need statement document and coming to an agreement on what ideas to work on in a team is quite a journey. Fellow Kasper Linde tells his story.

Katrine Lind

Need some answers?

This is a webinar about the BioMedical Design Fellowship Programme featuring the managing director and two current fellows who both explains and answer questions about the programme.

Roeen Roashan

Clinical Immersion – the importance of field work

I’m Roeen Roashan. I come from a business background, with an MBA from 2012. After working as a health technology analyst for more than six years, I decided to start my own health-tech company in…

Chantelle Driever

The BioMedical Design Boot Camp – in my words

My name is Chantelle Driever and I am one of the lucky 8 Aarhus fellows for 2019/20. I have a background in biomedical and biomolecular engineering, and in recent years I had a shop selling…

Katrine Lind Møgelgaard

New BMD teams observing ears, noses and throats – stomachs and kidneys

– BioMedical Design fellows doing their clinical immersion on otolaryngology, gastroenterology and nephrology The new classes of BioMedical Design fellows got together at the old Skjoldnæsholm Castle on Zealand to mark the transition from boot…

Sys Zoffmann Glud

Welcoming Speech by Sys Zoffmann Glud

BioMedical Design Inauguration Day September 2nd 2019 At Biomedical Design we want to empower talents in need led health innovation. We do that with the intention of supplying Danish healthcare, Danish research institutions and the…

Sys Zoffmann Glud

The output of going through the BioMedical Design Programme is still unknown…

In September 2019 our first ever teams of fellows will onboard a 10 months journey with a steep learning curve. But what do you learn when following the BioMedical Design NNF Fellowship Programme? 1)    You…

Sys Glud

Thank you for all of your applications!

By the deadline, March 31st, we have received 152 applications for our first year of BioMedical Design. We are overwhelmed not just by the numbers, but also by the quality of the candidates. Several of…

Sys Glud

Go Slow and let Creativity Grow

How to set creative employees free By Sys Zoffmann Glud, Managing Director BioMedical Design Fellowship Programme Vast numbers of scientific reports and articles tell us that creativity is a sought-after skill among employees. And I’m…

Sys Glud

Webinar about the Fellowship Programme

Please join Managing Director Sys Zoffmann Glud for the webinar about the structure of the BioMedical Programme, the application process and what it may do for your career. Follow this link to register.

Sys Glud

Learn about BioMedical Design with this video

In this video, Managing Director, Sys Zoffmann Glud tells you why the Fellowship Programme has been launched and what we hope to achieve with it. Check it out and if you have any questions please…

Sys Glud

Proud to be on air

Welcome to our new website, which at the same time is the starting point for receiving applicants for the BioMedical Design Novo Nordisk Foundation Fellowship Programme. If you know someone who you think fit into…