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October 20, 2021
Duke Soft Matter Symposium Attracts Worldwide Audience
Duke Materials Initiative’s milestone event on polymer networks engages 300+ attendees from 16 nations

October 19, 2021
Dzirasa named to the National Academy of Medicine
Kafui Dzirasa is a psychiatrist and engineer examining the role of brain electricity in mental health disorders

October 13, 2021
Design Health Team Places on International Top 20 Shortlist for 2021 James Dyson Award
With a device to make cardiovascular procedures safer, Duke’s ArchGuard team was recognized out of 2,000 applicants

October 12, 2021 | Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Five Questions with ArchGuard Co-Founders Kevin Rosenthal & Kelly Yang
Duke Design Health Fellows who invented a novel medical device which helps prevent stroke during cardiac surgery advanced to finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition and need your vote to win

October 11, 2021
Cell-Filled Pouch Creates Temporary “Chimeras” to Treat Disease
Device protects human liver cells producing critical biomolecules for six months in mice

September 30, 2021
Pranam Chatterjee: Engineering the Reproductive System, One Protein at a Time
New faculty member Pranam Chatterjee uses AI to design proteins that promote, preserve and prolong reproductive health

September 28, 2021
Christensen Family Center Is Home to a New View on Innovation
The new Duke Engineering center seeks to not only develop student innovators, but discover how to make innovation easier, faster, cheaper

September 28, 2021
Christensen Family Gift Endows Center for Student Design Education at Duke
Naming honors gift by the family of Clayton Christensen, the management thinker who coined ‘disruptive innovation’

September 23, 2021
Sunassee Wins FIP John Chambers Scholarship Award
PhD student Enakshi Sunassee is working on a device that could reveal metabolic biomarkers of a cancer’s recurrence

September 21, 2021
Duke Engineering First-Year Design Team Impresses at NIH DEBUT Competition
Design team wins $15,000 National Cancer Institute prize for their innovative tool to help patients with colon cancer