Duke Translational Chaperones
DTC is a group of translational experts meeting inventors early and supporting their innovation journey with expert translational guidance, including finding and submitting translational grants. In their pilot year, DTC helped researchers secure over $6.5M in translational funding.
Gilhuly Accelerator Fund
The Gilhuly Accelerator Fund, managed by Duke’s Office for Translation & Commercialization, accelerates the commercialization of Duke innovators' projects through financial and other support of asset development and de-risking activities. Through the generous support of donors, OTC has awarded over $2M to 26 projects since FY22 – which have secured over $4M in follow-on funding.
Four Points Innovation
A strategic partnership between Duke and Deerfield Managed, launched in 2019 to support and accelerate the translation of research into new therapies to treat and cure society’s most formidable healthcare challenges. Through this partnership, Deerfield will fund Four Points Innovation up to $130 million and provide development expertise in support of Duke’s innovative drug research across a span of high-need therapeutic areas.
Translational Program Partners
Since 2006, Duke's translational partnership with the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has supported collaborative research projects that address unmet clinical needs and lead to improvements in health care and to commercial products.
Learn more about the Coulter PartnershipThe CTSI is the administrative home for the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), overseeing and integrating sixteen CTSA core services into the fabric of translational science at Duke University.
Learn More about CTSIThe mission of the Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) is to catalyze transformative innovations in health and healthcare, and to help cultivate a community of innovation and entrepreneurship across Duke University and the health enterprise.
Learn more about DIHIDuke Innovation & Entrepreneurship inspires and empowers students to act entrepreneurially in all their endeavors.
I&E serves students across Duke, connecting them to courses, co-curricular programs, mentoring, resources, community, and intellectual leadership.
Learn More about I&EGrant funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBio) fills critical funding gaps along the innovation continuum – from building university infrastructure to supporting early-stage development of university inventions to help move technology toward commercialization.
NCBio offers multiple funding mechanisms that are available to university investigators and startup companies.
Learn more about NCBio Funding ProgramsLearn more about other programs and opportunities that provide funding and capital to inventors and startups.,
Funding and Capital ResourcesFunding Opportunities
View a listing of current available funding opportunities.
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National Academy of Inventors, nominations from Duke 2025
Individuals with a strong record of patented innovation may be eligible for nomination to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows program—learn how to be considered through Duke’s coordinated process.