‘All hands on deck’: How Duke University and AI for Health raced to create a COVID-19 solution for patients
The 7-month-old was crying. Amanda Randles picked her up, held her and continued talking on the video meeting call from home. Nearby, her other 7-month-old baby started to wail. Randles put one baby down, picked…
Tech Transfer Fellows: Powering the Commercialization Engine for Duke Innovations
By Shweta Krishnan, Assistant Director, Life Sciences Rachel Newcomb is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. She is working in the Alvarez Lab studying the effects of whole-genome duplication…
Crossing the Valley of Death: Tech Transfer Marketing
By Alex Mullins, Technology Marketing Associate In the field of technology transfer, we often talk about the valley of death between academic research and the commercialization of technology. This dreaded gap occurs after a researcher…
Show Me the Money
Breaking Down the Royalty Distribution for Licensed Inventions by Mitch Dozier, Director of Operations & Finance, OTC So, your novel idea is a success–congratulations! Now that the agreement is generating or will generate revenue, you’re…
Is this an Invention?
By Dennis Thomas, Associate Director, Life Sciences Sometimes, it is obvious. It is easy to equate developing a new drug or gene therapy that can cure cancer and treat diseases or a device that heals…
Three NC life science execs crack PharmaVoice ‘most inspiring’ list
Leading life sciences magazine PharmaVoice has named three North Carolina executives to its list of the 100 most inspiring leaders in the pharmaceutical industry. Named to PharmaVoice 100 are PPD’s Karen Kaucic, M.D., the company’s chief…
NC Biotech Center invested nearly $2M in state’s life science sector
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 34 grants and loans totaling nearly $2 million to universities, biosciences companies and other entities in the fourth quarter of its last fiscal year. The awards, made in April, May…
Working and collaborating with University Technology Transfer Offices
The third podcast of Venture Connect online with partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati: The three great universities that form the vertices of the Triangle of North Carolina are engines of innovation for its ecosystems. Every year these…
Building A Better Protein Trap
Life scientists love antibodies, not only because these little proteins help protect us all from pathogens, but because antibodies are also a very handy laboratory tool for identifying and marking proteins of interest in their…