José Gómez-Márquez

José Gómez-Márquez

Director, Little Devices Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jose Gomez-Marquez leads the Little Devices Lab MIT's the International Design Centre. He is a co-inventor the MEDIKit platform, a series of design building blocks that empower doctors and nurses in developing countries to invent their own medical technologies. His other research projects include crowdsourced diagnostics, paper microfluidics, and reconfigurable diagnostics for extreme environments. Jose has served on the European Union’s Science Against Poverty Taskforce and has participated as an expert advisor in the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In 2009, Jose was selected to Technology Review’s TR35, which also named him Humanitarian of the Year. In 2011 he was named a TED Fellow. He arrived to the United States from his native Honduras on a Rotary exchange and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.