Blake Wilson’s Efforts to Help People Hear
Learn how federal funding helped Duke Engineering graduate and professor revolutionize a device that has restored hearing for millions.

Learn how federal funding helped Duke Engineering graduate and professor revolutionize a device that has restored hearing for millions.
A Bass Connections team including BME PhD student Sophia Vincoff works to engineer bacteria that can degrade plastics in the ocean.
Researchers led by Lingchong You have developed a system to better regulate gene expression that could be applied to biosensors, toxin production and metabolic pathway regulation.
For the past decade, a research team led by Cameron McIntyre has been developing a platform to convert 2D MRI brain scans into interactive 3D holographic visualizations to assist brain surgeons.
By precisely controlling the concentration of drugs, DART.2 helps ensure drugs are administered to targeted cells
Lingchong You's 2022 study is cited as one of the main reasons a kitchen sponge is so good at harboring a wide diversity and large density of bacteria.
Ashutosh Chilkoti was recognized by the Society for Biomaterials for his pioneering work in protein-resistant polymer coatings and protein biomaterials
Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a rare genetic disease called Prader-Willi syndrome
Synthetic biological compartments trap together cellular machinery to increase their rate of protein production
One small slit could make rapid and detailed imaging tools more accessible for labs and hospitals
Pranam Chatterjee uses generative AI to create thousands of new potential therapeutic peptides and match them to "undruggable" biomolecular targets
The organization recognized Yao for his pioneering work to advance photoacoustic imaging technologies
Associated $250,000 prize will support Randles's work to build "digital twins" for the human vasculature to improve heart-related health outcomes