Jose Gomez-Marquez is the program leader for the Innovations in International Health (IIH) at MIT. Among the projects under his technology practice at IIH is the Aerovax Drug Delivery System, a device for mass delivery of inhalable drugs and vaccines to remote populations. The rest of his IIH invention portfolio includes SafePilot, a next generation cane for the blind, and most recently, the X Out TB program, which aims to increase TB therapy adherence in developing countries using novel diagnostics and mobile technology. These technologies have been featured in Forbes, the Booz Allen Hamilton Technology Petting Zoo, and the Dow Jones Emerging Ventures Conference on Tomorrow's Innovation.

Jose has been a guest speaker at the NCIIA's Invent2Venture discussing affordable technology and is a director of Harvard Medical School's HST 939, a course on global health technologies. He is a frequent contributor to global health technology blog, Little Devices That Could. At Worcester Polytechnic Institute he focuses on policy research studies on international technology transfer and small team innovation.

Jose is a 3 time MIT IDEAS Competition winner, including two Lemelson Awards for International Technology. He arrived to the United States from his native Honduras on a Rotary scholarship and currently lives in Newton, Massachusetts.