ICYMI: Deshpande Center spinout BioDevek and its sprayable gel were featured in MIT Technology Review. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eBS39gHD
MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
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Moving MIT technologies from lab to market
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MIT's Deshpande Center supports innovations to improve lives. Through our grant funding and mentorship, students and faculty turn their research and technologies into products that benefit society. Our project teams have launched more than 40 spinout companies to date, with the help of "Catalyst" mentors who train them to be innovators and entrepreneurs.
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Leuko Labs has a new way to spot life-threatening infections in cancer patients. Leuko, a 2019 Deshpande Center spinout, has a noninvasive way to monitor patients’ health during chemotherapy. Read more at MIT News: https://lnkd.in/eg3My8zm
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Are you ready to make an impact? The Deshpande Center offers grants to MIT faculty and researchers looking to take their technology to market in the next three years. Applications due March 4. For more information, visit us here: https://lnkd.in/eB2W_X4J
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You are a master in your research and technology. How about the legal issues when you start a company? The Deshpande Center's IAP seminar, “Start-Up Legal Dos and Don’ts,” provides expert advice on what to consider as you commercialize your work. Advance registration is required: https://lnkd.in/etgTrDjD
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Congratulations to Amide Technologies! It's wonderful to see Deshpande Center projects making an impact.
Today we officially announced the commercialization of Amide’s peptide manufacturing platform and the recent closing of our Series A Extension, led by Engine Ventures. Mark Simon and Philip Dixon spoke to Anna Brown of Endpoints News to discuss their vision for the future and detail how their platform is accelerating peptide drug discovery. Thank you Brad L. Pentelute, Biological Engineering Ventures, Engine Ventures, and Forcefield Venture for supporting Amide in developing this platform. To learn more about Amide Technologies, visit our newly redesigned website at amidetech.com. https://lnkd.in/eFzhAD8d
Amide Technologies
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A group of researchers have designed a local, gel-based drug-delivery platform that may provoke a system-wide immune response to metastatic tumors. Learn more about this active Deshpande Center project: https://lnkd.in/ejkSP2QD
Immune action at a distance
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Congratulations to Professor Moungi Bawendi, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on quantum dots. Bawendi's research has been part of multiple Deshpande projects, including successful spinouts. He exemplifies innovation to impact. https://lnkd.in/eqKy6VCs
MIT Professor Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Kronos Bio is studying the complex signaling networks of cancer cells to find new drug targets. Read more in MIT News about Kronos, which spun out from a 2015 Deshpande Center project led by Angela Koehler, who is now the center's faculty director. https://lnkd.in/emiyjiJ3
Studying cancer in context to stop its growth
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A trio of MIT-affiliated researchers has won the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for their work on optical coherence topography. The team includes Eric Swanson, who has been a valuable mentor to Deshpande Center projects. https://lnkd.in/epcm-S_j
James Fujimoto, Eric Swanson, and David Huang win Lasker Award
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