Fellowship program

The Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) offers a 12 months long fellowship program comprising of 30 credits of class room entrepreneurship training, including 8 weeks of clinical immersion at healthcare provider/hospitals. Successful Entrepreneurs with start-up companies would be further admitted to CfHE for incubation for one more year. Rigorous admission requirements and expert selection committee will pick the best candidates with engineering, medicine, pharmaceutical or social science backgrounds. The program will organize admitted candidates in diverse skill teams. The CfHE program builds on and takes active guidance from Stanford Universityas Bio-Design fellowship program. Two Stanford faculty, Dr. Rajiv Doshi and Dr. Anurag Mairal are involved in concept, design and monitoring of the program for minimum of next 24 months. At the successful completion of the program, the fellows are awarded joint certificate by CHE and IITH. The program expects the startups to get further funding from the VC community. Government agencies and foundations may also provide financial support to a lesser degree