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.
Lumotive Raises $45 Million to Expand Sales of Programmable Optical Semiconductors
Lumotive is a metamaterials start-up spun out of the labs of Professor David Smith and Associate Professor Maiken Mikkelsen (ECE, Pratt). Mikkelsen's former postdoc Gleb Akselrod is the founder and CTO.
Dr. Jim Flatt Announced as New CEO of DMC Biotechnologies
DMC Technologies is a Duke start-up commercializing sustainable chemistry technology out of the lab of Associate Professor Michael Lynch (BME, Pratt).
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.
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.
Invented at Duke 2024 showcases the past and present of innovation at Duke, promising a bright future
A special Centennial edition of Invented at Duke featured inventors and innovations from the past, present, and future of Duke.
New Frontiers in Space
Satellite antenna can take images faster and more often than existing technology, allowing us to track the Earth as it evolves. Extellis is an inventor booth at Invented at Duke 2024.