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Duke Translational Chaperones help researchers secure over $6.5M in translational funding
In their pilot year, the new team at OTC worked with Duke life sciences PIs to position their research for maximal translational impact. Who will they help next?
Finding the right fit: inventive Duke students get crash course in commercializing their technologies
Making customer calls and polishing pitches – Duke’s innovation ecosystem collaborates to offer Duke graduate and professional students a hands-on technology commercialization bootcamp.
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.
How old are you, really? Biological aging tech from Duke inventors spotlighted on TV
Professors Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi (Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity) are leading experts in biological aging and have invented a test that is now a commercial product.
Seeds of Hope – Duke Magazine
Dr. Darell Bigner journeys from the farm to the heights of neuro-oncology and back again