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A record setting year of innovation — In FY21 we saw researchers from across campus working with the OTC team to make records for the number of inventions, revenue, and start-ups.

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Duke Start-ups: Impact in North Carolina and Beyond In the Past Five Years

By the Numbers
79
Companies formed
$1.6B
Raised in private and public financing
6
IPOs

Annual Reports

Duke is an innovative place to be right now–we’re turning our world class research into viable commercial products.

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2021 Impact

374

Disclosures

118

Agreements

93

Issued Patents

$91M

In Revenue

Duke Startups

Duke Total Invention Disclosures & Agreements

Recent Success Stories

Brain Tumor 'Pied Piper' Device Gains Breakthrough Status,
Exvade Biosciences

“This was the first demonstration that you can engineer migration inside the body and move a tumor from point A to point B by design,”…

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Kriya Expands Gene Therapy Pipeline and Establishes its Rare Disease Therapeutic Area Division with the Acquisition of Warden Bio, Warden Bio

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., — January 7, 2022 — Kriya Therapeutics, Inc., a fully integrated company pioneering novel technologies and therapeutics in gene…

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IonQ Becomes First Publicly Traded, Pure-Play Quantum Computing Company; Closes Business Combination with dMY Technology Group III, IonQ

COLLEGE PARK, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE), October 1, 2021–IonQ, Inc. (“IonQ” or the “Company”) (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in quantum computing, completed its previously announced business combination…

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Tellus Therapeutics Secures Seed Financing to Develop the First Treatment for Newborns with White Matter Brain Injury, Tellus Therapeutics

DURHAM, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE), May 12, 2021–Tellus Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing TT-20 as a treatment for white matter injury (WMI) and myelin repair in…

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ATP Announces $40 Million in Series A Funding for srRNA Therapeutics Trailblazer Replicate Bioscience, Replicate Bioscience

NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — ATP, a leader in life sciences venture capital, today announced the launch of Replicate Bioscience, a company pioneering ways…

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Sparta Biomedical Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Biomimetic Implant, Sparta Biomedical

DURHAM, N.C., March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Sparta Biomedical Inc., a developer of orthopedic solutions, today announced that its SBM-01 Biomimetic Implant has been granted a Breakthrough…

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PowerVerde Completes its Merger with 374Water to Accelerate Delivery of CleanTech to Eliminate PFAS and Recover Resources from Waste and Wastewater, 374Water

MIAMI, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/-- PowerVerde Inc. OTCQB (“PWVI”), a Florida-based energy systems developer, and 374Water Inc. (“374Water”), a North Carolina-based cleantech company, today announced the completion…

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Duke spinout with former FDA commissioner on board raises $6M, Clinetic

Triangle Business Journal, February 5, 2021-- A Duke University-born technology firm aimed at connecting hospital data with clinical research is raising millions – and it…

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This Startup Just Raised $70 Million to Grow Tiny Tumors That Create Personalized Cancer Treatments, Xilis

Forbes , July 8, 2021-- Around seven out of ten cancer patients don’t respond to drugs in the first go. This is a hard-hitting statistic…

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Programmable Dye Platform Pioneer Phitonex, Phitonex

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Phitonex, Inc., a Durham,…

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