lizzie cochran , a student at columbia university , has launched a kickstarter campaign to fund her upcoming fashion line epidemia designs .
she came up with after spending days upon days staring at cells through microscopes in her biology classes , and then spotting an article on epidemics that displayed images of deadly diseases from recent history .
the patterns will also be available for printing on iphone cases after the company , which has already raised $ 13,798 , reaches its $ 15,000 crowdfunding goal .