CGU Biodesign turns Taiwan’s largest healthcare system into a classroom. Across seven hospital branches and 10,000 beds, clinicians, engineers and designers start from one real clinical problem — and use Stanford Biodesign to reach a solution patients can actually use.
Seven branches. Ten thousand beds. That is not scale — it is a daily supply of unsolved problems. Chang Gung’s difference is not that it has hospitals; it is that the problem begins inside clinical care.
Clinicians frame the problem from the frontline. Not a lab hypothesis — a patient’s ordinary day.
Medicine, engineering and management across three universities — different languages, one table.
IP, regulation, reimbursement and incubation — so a prototype reaches the patient, not just the slide.
7 CGMH clinical branches across Taiwan for authentic observation
Physicians & nurses identify real-world unmet needs from bedside
Weekend intensive sprint completing Need Statement to MVP and pitch
CGU faculty won 13 National Innovation Awards in 2025 with direct incubation
The three phases are not a flowchart but a discipline: prove the problem is worth solving, prove the solution can be built, and prove the patient can access it.
Innovation begins with an unmet need. Clinical immersion reveals real challenges.
Rapid ideation and structured screening. Build testable MVPs early.
Bridging science with real-world adoption. Regulatory clearance, IP, and reimbursement.
ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE“Start from what patients and clinicians are facing — not from the technology you happen to have.”
NEEDS-DRIVEN, NOT TECH-PUSHFour pathways, one origin: the clinical field. Whether you are a clinician, engineer, designer or student, you begin with a real problem.
“If we are going to educate, we will do only the best.”Wang Yung-ching · Founder, CGU
The motto is not a slogan on a wall. It is our design principle: remove decoration, keep structure; remove claims, keep evidence.
Guided by the motto “Diligence and Simplicity,” CGU combines a pragmatic industrial ethos with the clinical capacity of the Chang Gung healthcare system.
