Mission
Calamity Labs is foremost a private design and research group, with the broad goal of improving human health, medical practice, and bioscience research through improvements in technology. More specifically, we aim to develop biomedical devices, application software, and services that show promise in clinical or basic science settings. Examples can be found on our Projects page. As Calamity grows, intellectual property secured for new technologies may be developed in-house, released openly, or licensed to a third party for further development.
With a diverse background in medicine, surgery, neuroscience, cardiovascular biology, materials science, drug-development, and bioengineering, our team is intellectually invested in a number of fields. In time, our hope is that Calamity will mature into a technology incubator with the ability to vet, cultivate, and translate independent and novel biomedical technologies originating from outside the company. The final and perhaps most important of Calamity’s roles is that of a think tank, focused on progressive healthcare reform and improving access to medical information.
History
Calamity Labs was established in 2015 by a group of entrepreneurial medical and graduate students whose paths crossed at the University of Colorado. The company is registered and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, though our team has now spread to the San Francisco Bay Area. A number of projects are in the pipeline; in the immediate future, Calamity is focused on securing and licensing intellectual property surrounding two of our most promising device designs. Any related revenue will be put into further research and development. You can follow our progress here or on Twitter (@calamitylabs).
Why Calamity?
It’s a strange name to be sure and one we are asked about often. Calamity usually conjures up images of a disaster or misfortune, but we see it a bit differently. For us, it represents the stumbles, wrong turns, and dead ends that are inseparable parts of any advancement. In fact, if the history of science has taught us anything, it’s that, when viewed through the right lens, a mistake can sometimes turn into a world-changing discovery. Fleming and Roentgen would likely agree.
Feel free to contact us with questions, ideas, or hypotheses!