Medicine meets MedTech.
Medinn is the practice of Dr. Sidharth Narayanan, building edtech growth and MedTech ecosystems across Malabar.
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Where clinical education meets MedTech
Medinn reaches medical students at scale and puts colleges, engineers, makers and startups at one table, to grow Malabar's biomedical ecosystem.
Edtech
- Cytokine Lectures
- COO. 50+ college communities over 3+ years, and close to ₹50L in lifetime revenue that Medinn helped build.
- MEDPG Calicut
- Outreach lead. Podcasts, posters, and the Evolve 60-day MCQ campaign.
- KNYA
- Distribution partner across Kerala campuses.
- Doc Tutorials and Doctor Bhatia's
- A national medicine quiz, and campus marketing for NEET PG.
MedTech
- IEDC GMC Kozhikode
- Early advocate and student lead. Launched in May 2026.
- Interdisciplinary hackathons
- Cochin in 2025 and Kozhikode in 2026, with TinkerHub and TinkerSpace.
- NIT Calicut and Calicut Medical College
- Projects that put medicine and engineering on one team.
- Repair Café and Medical Device Deconstruction Lab
- Clinicians and makers taking devices apart together.
The Handover.
From MBBS to house surgeon
A two-day offline internship bootcamp for new doctors across Kerala, held on 20 and 21 September 2026 beside Calicut Medical College. Medinn conceptualized, ran, marketed and executed it for Cytokine Lectures.
Landmark · 18 October 2026
India's first medical Repair Café.
Medical students, engineers and makers opened up condemned devices from Government Medical College, Kozhikode, on one bench, and brought five of them back. Medinn conceived and led it with IEDC GMC Kozhikode and TinkerSpace Calicut.
What we learned
- No paper trail
- Many devices had no record of maintenance contracts, servicing or routine care.
- Donated, then lost
- Donated devices often never get registered with the biomedical team, so they fall outside maintenance and warranty.
- Care nobody taught
- Basic care like filter changes is not something most healthcare workers are trained in.
- Calibration
- It is costly. How much of it actually happens?
“We look after our phones and computers better than the devices patients depend on.”From the Repair Café reportWhat comes next
In the press
“When needed, the stethoscope and the spanner too.”
Malayala Manorama, Kozhikode City, 19 October 2026, page 4. The report names Medinn's Dr. Sidharth Narayanan as Student Nodal Officer among those who led the day.
“Healthcare workers can offer ideas for new technology in healthcare; engineering's technical strength is what brings them into practice. Medical and engineering students working together here is a model initiative.”Dr. M. P. Sreejayan, Superintendent, Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode
Translated from Malayalam.
Ongoing project
MedTech Malabar.
Hospital ecosystems, engineering institutes and management institutes coming together, with a pipeline from ideation to prototyping, product creation and startups in Malabar, for SaaS and hardware alike. The baseline is laid through Calicut Medical College and TinkerSpace, with follow-up collaborations at NIT Calicut. Incubation with a partner hospital is underway, and we are inviting people to be part of it. Medinn is the strategist behind it.
Ideation
A clinical problem bank, needs-finding in the wards, and ideathons.
Prototyping
Build sprints and hackathons with engineers and makers, mentored by clinicians.
Product creation
Engineering, testing and clinical validation that turn prototypes into products.
Startups
Incubation, business models, funding and market access, with management institutes alongside.
Where it stands
2020 to now
Timeline.
Gallery.
Stages, bootcamps, hackathons and the people behind them. Select any photo or video to see it full size.
Selected work.
Services.
Seven ways to work with Medinn, from a brand for a doctor-led venture to an innovation ecosystem for an institute.
Medinn Blogs.
Notes from Malabar on MedTech, devices and public healthcare. The Medinn newsletter, written by Dr. Sidharth Narayanan.
Clinical grounding
Research and credentials.
Publications
Nutritional Assessment of Cancer Patients: A Study from a Tertiary Cancer Care Center in Kerala (2026). Metastatic Solitary Fibrous Tumor of Parapharyngeal Region: A Case Report with Review of Literature (2025). Both in the Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology.
Peer reviewer for JMIRx Med (2024). Co-author of the Cytokine Prescription Guide, Edition 1.
KUHS Research Appreciation Award, 2024
A community medicine project on risk factors for non-communicable diseases among medical students in North Kerala. Third prize for the paper presentation at MedMeet 3.0. Unpublished.
Speaking
Panelist on the HealthTech track at the IEDC Summit, NIT Calicut, in October 2024. Speaker at the AI in Healthcare Virtual Global Summit in December 2024. Two-time University Debate and Extempore Champion.
Certifications
Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Johns Hopkins University via Coursera (July 2024). Bioentrepreneurship Basic Certification, Kerala Biotechnology Commission. Bio-entrepreneurship Advanced Certification, a 5-day residential course with IIT Palakkad Technology I-Hub Foundation (October 2025).
Poster sessions
All Kerala community medicine poster competition, including the KUHS award project. Training workshop on LGBTQIA+ affirmative healthcare, Sangath iHEAR AffirmCare project (October 2024).
Juvenile justice elective
A 2024 and 2025 case study on the juvenile justice system in Kozhikode and the role of NGOs in reducing recidivism, presented at poster sessions. Unpublished. It reflects a wider interest in sociology, community medicine and mental health.
Have a healthcare project in mind?
Tell me what you are launching, running or scaling, and I will say whether Medinn is the right fit.
