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10 Years, 60 Startups, $105 Million – and Counting: Duke Capital Partners Leads the Way in Alumni Investing
From its start as one of the first alumni-led venture groups of its kind, Duke Capital Partners continues to connect Duke alumni investors with innovative Duke-affiliated startups – and train the next generation of venture…
VQ Biomedical secures $5M, including a seed round led by Harbright, WIN, and DCP
VQ Biomedical is a Duke University start-up and DCP portfolio company resulting from the collaboration Duke clinicians and engineers.
Colleagues off the Court: Duke and UNC Champion Research and Innovation on Capitol Hill
From Google’s search to 3D printing, from MRIs to mRNA vaccines, countless products and services that make our lives better started as university born innovations from research.
Duke University ranks 24th worldwide for patents granted to academic institutions
Duke researchers are pioneering inventors and Duke is successfully commercializing these inventions for the benefit of the public.
Interdisciplinarity and impact shine at Duke Research and Innovation Summit 2025
The annual gathering of the Duke research community emphasized how innovators are making an impact through their research.
Tune Therapeutics Completes Over $175M in Series B Financing to Advance Field-Leading Epigenome Editing Programs
Tune Therapeutics is a Duke University start-up and Duke Capital Partners portfolio company developing epigenetic editing spun out of the lab of co-founder Professor Charles Gersbach (BME, Pratt).
Vividion Therapeutics Acquires Tavros Therapeutics to Expand Functional Genomics Capabilities and Boost Drug Discovery Platform
Tavros Therapeutics was co-founded by Eoin McDonnell, graduate of the Duke University Molecular Cancer Biology PhD Program, and Associate Professor Kris Wood (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, SOM).
Humacyte Announces FDA Approval of SYMVESS™ (acellular tissue engineered vessel-tyod) for the Treatment of Extremity Vascular Trauma
Humacyte is a Duke University start-up out of the lab of Dr. Laura Niklason (formerly Anesthesiology, SOM), co-founded with Drs. Juliana Blum and Shannon Dahl.
Duke, UNC, and NC State academics get crash course in building startups
Faculty and students with promising IP developed at Triangle universities were invited to workshop their ideas with the help of serial entrepreneurs.