Jose Gomez-Marquez

Jose Gomez-Marquez (born 1976- present) is a Honduran inventor, researcher, and educator and is best known for empowering medical professionals with MEDIkits. He currently serves on the European Union's Science Against Poverty Initiative Task Force. He's dedicated to changing global health and advocates for healthcare professionals.

Early life and education
Before entering the United States, Gomez-Marquez was a native of Honduras. He is from a medical family, his grandfather was a surgeon who served in different hospitals in Tegucigalpa where Gomez was raised. After entering the United States on a Rotary scholarship in 1997, Marquez attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he studied policy research covering international technology, transfer and small-team innovation.

Career and research
Gomez-Marquez has figured out a way to extract parts from toys and create these medical instruments for children at a low cost rate. He also designed a way for people to build their own diagnostics and be put together in labs at a cheap cost. The cofounder of the International Development Initiation at MIT, Amy Smith, hired him in 2007 to run Innovations in International Health. Marquez is currently the co-director of Little Devices Lab at MIT. He is one of the cofounders at MakerNurse, established in 2013. He is also cofounder of LDTC+ Labs, and serves on the European Union's Science Against Poverty Initiative Task Force. One of his many inventions that won him awards are the individual vaporizers that came already filled with the appropriate amount of vaccine. These vaccines didn't need to be refrigerated and could be disposed of right after usage.

Awards and honors
Gomez-Marquez is a three-time MIT IDEAS Competition winner including two Lemelson Awards for International Technology. 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. In 2011, Gomez-Marquez was chosen as a TedGlobal Fellow. He won these awards for his designs of practical medical devices for use in impecunious countries.

Selected publications

 * Marquez, Jose G. "Ampli: A Construction Set for Paperfluidic Systems" published 2018
 * Innovations in International Health