Stanford Medicine Catalyst was created to cultivate and advance the unmatched innovation that occurs at Stanford. We select the inventions and ideas that have the highest potential to have a transformative effect on health and biomedicine at global scale and support them to evolve and prepare for commercialization through pilot projects, prototyping, deployment in active health systems, business planning, market analysis, connections with the investment community and the development of future executive leadership teams. The program leverages the full range of resources and capabilities of Stanford, including all aspects of the University and Stanford’s health systems (Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health). Catalyst was formed as part of the Stanford Medicine Integrated Strategic Plan and is supported by the Dean of the School of Medicine and the two CEOs of the health systems.  At Stanford Medicine we are inventing the future and improving patient...