Global Summit 2025
Global Summit
2025
Health care innovators and educators from around the world kick-started their quest to change the future of medicine and medical education at the first Global Summit of the Global Consortium on Innovation and Engineering in Medicine.
First Global Summit Fuels Health Care Innovation, Awards $250k to Student Entrepreneurs
The Summit featured the Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge Pitch competition to showcase groundbreaking solutions to real-world health problems. The top student teams were awarded funding to pilot and validate their solutions across the Consortium’s new global network of medical schools and hospitals, with insights and guidance from industry and regulatory agencies.
500+
REGISTERED ATTENDEES
33
INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED
17
COMPANIES ENGAGED
56
STUDENT SEMIFINALIST TEAMS
$250k
PRIZE MONEY AWARDED
Global Health Innovation Grand Challenge Competition
The competition will bring the best student innovation teams from around the world to solve real problems in global health that can be further developed through the consortium network.
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As a supporter of the Global Consortium of Engineering-Based Medicine and Innovation, you will play a pivotal role in CI MED and UIUC's worldwide effort to reengineer the future of health care and medical education. This is an opportunity to support the work of some of the brightest minds in medical science, engineering, and other disciplines as they collaborate and innovate on a global scale.