Posts Tagged ‘Duke University’
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
 I remember what a big deal it was when Duke University in Durham, NC decided to give every entering student an Apple iPod to use for recording lectures and other educational purposes. Nowadays, more than half already own a smartphone.
How are they using them?
Here’s an infographic from Onlinedegrees.org detailing the mobile lives of today’s college students:
Please include attribution to OnlineDegrees.org with this graphic.
Tags: Duke University, infographic, iPods, mobile lives of college students, smartphones
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
 Almost half of students say they have used a mobile app for learning purposes. The portability of smartphones and tablets and the large number of apps available for both iPhone and Android devices have made them ideal study aids.
It was not always so. We recall that just a few years ago when Duke University in Durham, NC, gave each incoming student an Apple iPod for use in accessing recorded lectures and for other study-enhancing uses, it was a big deal.
In just one year, from 2011 to 2012, one study saw a 10-fold increase in the number of minutes students study using mobile devices.
Online Colleges created this infographic on “Connecting apps & education” to show the increasing use of mobile by students.
Provided By: OnlineColleges.net
Tags: connecting apps and education, Duke University, infographic, mobile, Online Colleges
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
 TechMedia’s Internet Summit 2011 at the Raleigh, NC Convention Center Nov. 15-16 is jam-packed with top level content focused on the latest digital trends, online marketing techniques and IT best practices at the largest digital event in the Southeast.
The Internet Summit features two full days of learning mixed with awesome parties, great networking and entertaining keynotes. Here’s a sampling of topics that will be addressed:
- Online Video
- Cloud Panel
- Ecommerce Trends
- Reputation Management
- Security/Risk Management
- Startup Strategies
- Enterprise 3.0 Panel
- Email Marketing
- Mobile Analytics
- Advanced SEO
- Big Data
- Measuring Social
- Design
- Paid Search
- CIO/CTO Panel
- Online Advertising
- Location Marketing
- Marketing Through Facebook & Twitter
- Virtualization
- Social Media Marketing
- Internet Entrepreneurship Panel
- and much more.
Hear from the founders of companies like Gowalla, TheLadders, Twitpic & HowStuffWorks! Not enough? How about a Keynote from Top rated SXSW keynote and ‘Social Media King’ Gary Vaynerchuk? That’s just a sampling of the over 120 speakers and presenters that will be on hand.
Early confirmed presenters include:
- Gary Vaynerchuk, Co-Founder, VaynerMedia
- Josh Williams, Co-founder & CEO, Gowalla
- Mac Cendella, Founder & CEO, The Ladders
- Marshall Brain, Founder, How Stuff Works
- David Perry, Business Development Executive, Google
- Liz Strauss, Co-founder, SOBcon & LizStrauss.com
- Noah Everett, Founder, TwitPic and Heello
- Jack Krawczyk, Sr Product Marketing Mgr, StumbleUpon
- Traug Keller, Sr VP of Production, ESPN
- Jeff Ragovin, Chief Revenue Officer, Buddy Media
- Peggy Fry, Chief Revenue Officer, Clearspring Technologies
- Mike Relm, Founder, Relmvision
- Bob Young, Founder & CEO, LuLu.com
- Donna DeMarco, Co-Founder & VP, Viddler
- Ryan Mannion, Chief Technology Officer, Politico
- Fran Maier, President & Executive Chair, TRUSTe
- Jerry Cuomo, CTO WebSphere, IBM
- Prerna Gupta, CEO, Khush
- Kevin Dando, Dir Digital & Education Communication, PBS
- Clint Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Emma
- Matt Crenshaw, VP of Marketing, Discovery Communications
- Scott Gunter, VP of User Experience, Usability Sciences
- Lindsay Wassell, Partner & Consultant, KeyphraSEOlogy
- Steve Ashley, VP Internet Marketing, Market America
- Gerard Bush, Chief Creative Dir, The brpr Group
- Rob Ousbey, VP Operations Seattle, Distilled
- David Gudai, VP of Marketing, Storkie
- Glenn Mersereau, Dir of Internet Marketing, PHE
- Jim Tobin, President, Ignite Social Media
- Kevin Pomplun, CEO, SkyGrid
- Sherry Bastion, Web Creative Director, Lenovo
- John Lovett, Sr Partner, Web Analytics Demystified
- Drew Diskin, Dir of Interactive & Web Strategy, Penn Medicine
- Lynette Montgomery, VP Ecommerce, Burt’s Bees
- Noah Dinkin, Co-Founder & President, FanBridge
- Jessica Bowman, SEOinhouse.com
- David Gudai, VP of Marketing, Storkie
- Todd Moy, Sr User Experience Designer, Viget Labs
- Donna Bedford, Global SEO Lead, Lenovo
- Francis Shepherd, Media Evangelist
- Dallas Lawrence, Chief Digital Strategist, Burson-Marsteller
- Thuy LeDihn, Senior Marketing Manager, .ORG
- Adam Covati, Co-founder & CTO, Argyle Social
- Chris Condayan, American Society for Microbiology
- Kyle Scott Richardson, Social Media, NC National Guard
- Cara Rousseau, Social Media Manager, Duke University
- Loren Baker, VP of Marketing, Blueglass
- Matthew Munoz, Partner & Chief Design Officer, New Kind
- Jill Whalen, CEO, HighRankings
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
 Chris Heivly RESEARCH TRIANGLE, NC – The early stage tech company accelerator LaunchBox Digital is pausing its accelerator program in 2011 to move its investment strategy upstream somewhat. Former LaunchBox Executive Director Chris Heivly has returned to The Triangle Startup Factory, where he is raising funds and hopes to put together a new accelerator program by spring 2012.
LaunchBox Digital named among 15 top accelerator programs in the United States by Tech Cocktail. Four of the seven startup firms in its first Triangle class received funding within 3.5 months, Heivly tells us. “The industry average for companies coming out of these accelerators is that 50 percent get funding within six months,” he says.
One of the five LauchBox partners, Matthew Jacobson, tells TechJournal South that when the LaunchBox program started, “There were only a few accelerator programs out there.” Now he says, Duke University and The University of North Carolina are both starting their own accelerator programs and others have started. So we’re evaluating how the accelerator program fits into our overall program.”
Other regional early-stage focused programs and accelerators include a new one launched by Georgia Tech and Cary, NC-based TechStarts Plus and NC IDEA.
LaunchBox is still actively investing in companies and continues to support early stage firms, he says, although it is looking at a slightly later stage, such as firms that have already completed an accelerator program but haven’t received a venture round.
Havily says that he disagreed with LauchBox’s decision to pause the accelerator. “So, I went back to where I was originally, the Triangle Startup Factory,” he says.
“I’m in the midst of putting together funding, which I’d like to wrap up by early fall. By mid-fall, we’ll be ready to roll.” He wants to start the first class of new startups by March 2012.
“We’re excited about it,” he says. “In my role at LaunchBox and prior work I arranged for programming, mentors, and events. I’d like to tweak it all a bit and make it run even better.”
Tags: Chris Heivly, Duke University, early stage startup funding, LaunchBox Digital, Matt Jacobson, startup accelerators, Tech Cocktail, Triangle StartUp Factory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – Bioptigen Inc., a company that has developed in vivo optical imaging systems that enables real-time, noninvasive imaging of internal tissue microstructure, has raised $1.5 million from a single investor, according to a regulatory filing.
Bioptigen is a spin-out of the Duke University Biomedical Engineering Department. Bioptigen was incorporated in North Carolina in August, 2004, to commercialize technologies originating in the laboratories of Professor Joseph Izatt.
The company’s technology is based on the science of Optical Coherence Tomography, an imaging system similar in function to ultrasound, but using low-power light rather than sound waves.
OCT offers resolution 100-times finer than standard ultrasound, suitable for analyzing tissue microstructure with features smaller than 4 micrometer.
Bioptigen sold $542,500 in mixed securities in 2007.
The company disclosed the current raise in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Tags: Biotigen, Duke University, financing, Medical Device, OTC, Research Triangle Park
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
 Durham is becoming a hotbed for startup companies, with more than 50 in downtown alone. The success of the American Tobacco Campus and its startup friendly American Underground, the proximity to Duke University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park located 10 minutes away, and the city’s modest-cost-of-living are all contributing factors.
In a guest post on Jason Caplain’s Southeast VC blog, Adam Klein, director of Strategic Initiatives, Durham Chamber, wrote, “The idea for the Bull City Startup Stampede came during a conversation with Preation founder and iContact co-founder, Aaron Houghton. We were talking about how the startup scene in downtown Durham is thriving and that we’d love to expose more entrepreneurs to this environment. That’s when Aaron started talking about a wacky sort of spectacle eared at giving Triangle-based startups a first-hand experience of Durham…from there we launched the Startup Stampede.”
Houghton tells us, “It doesn’t cost the entrepreneurs a thing and they don’t give up any equity. The space is right in the middle of the startup scene in downtown Durham, 50 startups are within talking distance from this office. The 50mb Internet connection in the space is not currently offered to businesses in NC via cable providers but Stampede companies will get it first (for free) which is really cool.”
Klein added, “The programming for the event will be light but we are planning to bring in some very successful Durham entrepreneurs each week to talk with the Stampede participants about the ups and downs of launching a company.”
Durham startups already employ about 500 people and it’s well known that small businesses account for the bulk of new jobs created. With the RTP’s large tech companies shrinking workforces, we think this emphasis on creating and nurturing startups bodes well for the Bull City’s future.
Applications are due March 11 and selected participants will be notified by March 18. There is no specific industry focus but Kleins says, “We are mostly interested in the background of the founder/team, the market opportunity and the scalability of the concept.”
–Allan Maurer
Email TJS Editor Allan Maurer: Allan at TechJournalSouth dot com.
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Tags: Aaron Houghton, Adam Klein, American Tobacco Campus, Duke University, Durham, Durham Chamber, evemts, Jason Caplain, NC, Research Triangle Park, Southeast VC blog, startup hub, Startup Stampede, UNC
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
 RESEARCH TRIANGLE, NC – A number of players in the growing North Carolina nanotechnology sector tell us the state is poised to become a major hub for the science of the ultra-small. Here’s more evidence that it is already achieving a national reputation. The Commercialization of Micro-Nano Systems Conference 2011 will be held in Greensboro, North Carolina, August 28 – 31.
North Carolina is a hotbed of small technology activity; with 35 nanotech university research centers, over 80 nanobiotech and nanotechnology companies, home of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Semiconductor Research Corporation, world renowned engineering programs at the University of North Carolina & Duke University, global leaders like Coventor, RF Micro Devices, Inc and MEMSCAP; no other region in the world is such a highly concentrated hub of MNT action.
Key industries include advanced manufacturing, aerospace and aviation, automotive, biopharmaceuticals, defense, energy, financial services, software and information technology as well as textiles.
With the support of Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and the NC Center of innovation for Nanobiotechnology (NC COIN), COMS 2011 will offer attendees unparalleled access to top business leaders and opportunities in this dynamic region.
Tags: COIN, COMS, Coventor, Duke University, Greensboro, Memscap, Nanotech, NC, RF Micro Devices, RTI, UNC
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
 MORRISVILLE, NC – Centice Corp., has received $1.22 million of a targeted $1.3 million equity raise from two investors, according to a regulatory filing.
The investment follows a $1.82 million equity raise in April. The company disclosed both financings in filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. SEC filings not infrequently lag actual closings of the full amounts of investments.
In 2009, Centice, a Duke University spinout founded in 2004, raised a $6.1 million C round with new investor Fulcrum Financial Group. Other backers include The Aurora Funds Inc., Russian-based S-Group Direct Investments, Innovation Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and several individuals. The company raised about $18 million previously through equity and debt.
Centice says its PASS Rx technology is the first and only product that utilizes patented spectroscopy and machine vision sensor technologies to confirm the accuracy of a pharmacy’s dispensed solid dose medications in a matter of seconds. Pharmacy errors in dispensing drugs are all too common and cause as many as 7,000 deaths every year.
The problem is compounded by a national shortage of pharmacists, industry groups say.
Centice technologies have additional applicability beyond just the verification of solid medications in the pharmacy, and the company has plans to develop future products for solid drug identification, liquid medication verification and counterfeit drug detection.
Scott Albert, managing general partner of Centice investor The Aurora Funds, based in the Research Triangle Park, heads the firm as CEO and chair.
Previoulsy on TechJournal South:
Centice Wants to Stop Pharmacy Errors
Tags: Centice, drug verification device, Duke University, financing, Medical Device, Phama, Scott Albert, SEC, The Aurora Funds
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
 RALEIGH, NC – North Carolina State University, in partnership with Southern Capitol Ventures, a North Carolina-based early-stage venture capital firm, is expanding a program launched three years ago to showcase some of Research Triangle Park’s biggest technology success stories to students in NC State’s Entrepreneurship Initiative .
The expanded program will now include students from other regional universities including Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goal is to have students benefit from the exposure to all the companies they meet and begin to collaborate on their own ventures.
The next event will be held on October 22, 2010, with approximately 20 students from three universities participating.
Triangle Start-up Tour
The Triangle Start-Up Tour has experienced outstanding participation over the last three years with the participation of following companies:
Argyle Social, Bandwidth.com, Bluestripe Software, Bronto Software, Burt’s Bees, Canvas On Demand, Capitol Broadcasting, ChannelAdvisor, Cisco, Cree, Digitalsmiths, eTix, Global Value Commerce, Hosted Solutions, iContact, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Pocketgear, Preation, Red Hat, ReverbNation, SAS, SciQuest, SchoolDude, SchoolHouse, ShareFile, Spoonflower, Square 1 Bank, StatSheet, StrikeIron, The Venue Network, Therasim and Zift Solutions.
This program is similar in many ways to the NC State Entrepreneurship Initiative’s annual Spring Break field trip to Silicon Valley, where students have toured companies like Facebook, Apple, Google and Kleiner Perkins.
Usually, a founder or senior-level executive talks about the history of the company, what they are doing today and answers questions from students. Dr. Tom Miller, the EI’s executive director and vice provost for Distance Education and Learning Technology, has led that Silicon Valley trip for the last eight years.
Better known in Silicon Valley than our own backyard
“Several years ago, Bill Campbell, the chairman of Intuit, heard we were coming to town and changed his schedule so that he could meet with our students. I realized then that we were better known in Silicon Valley than in our own backyard, and that we should be giving our students the opportunity to interact with the entrepreneurial companies and thought leaders in our state,” said Dr. Tom Miller.
“Three years ago, we launched this program to build greater awareness so that students are exposed to some of the great technology development happening here in North Carolina,” said Jason Caplain, general partner at Southern Capitol Ventures.
“We continue to be impressed with the caliber of the students that are graduating from universities in North Carolina, and we hope this added network helps retain more students here in the region.”
Tags: Argyle Social, Bandwidth.com, Bluestripe Software, Bronto Software, Burt’s Bees, Canvas On Demand, Capitol Broadcasting, ChannelAdvisor, Cisco, Cree, Digitalsmiths, Duke University, eTix, Global Value Commerce, hosted solutions, icontact, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, NCSU, PocketGear, Preation, Red Hat, ReverbNation, SAS, SchoolDude, SchoolHouse, SciQuest, ShareFile, Southern Capitol Ventures, Spoonflower, Square 1 Bank, StatSheet, StrikeIron, The Venue Network, Therasim, Triangle Startup Tour expanding, UNC Chapel Hill, Zift Solutions
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
 COLUMBIA, MD – Celsion Corp. (Nasdaq:CLSN), a biotechnology company developing a new cancer treatment therapy, has won a $200,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The grant supports the company’s efforts to develop its proprietary heat-activated liposomal technology in combination with carboplatin, an approved and frequently used oncology drug for treatment of a wide range of cancers.
Michael Tardugno, president and CEO said, “This initial funding will provide important financial assistance as we further expand our technology platform to incorporate known anticancer agents. Our initial market assessment indicates that thermosensitive Carboplatin has the potential to address multiple solid tumor indications that are not addressed by ThermoDox, but could be an optimal adjuvant to radiofrequency ablation, microwave or high intensity ultrasound.”
Celsion has research, license, or commercialization agreements with leading institutions such as the National Institutes of Health, Duke University Medical Center, University of Hong Kong, Cleveland Clinic, and the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System.
Tags: cancer treatments, Celsion, Columbia, Duke University, MD, NIH grant
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
 Kaicheng Liang DURHAM, NC – Next generation robots may eliminate the need for surgeon guidance during some surgeries, say Duke University bioengineers who conducted feasibility studies that demonstrated that an unassisted robot could perform certain operations.
The studies demonstrated that a robot could, without human assistance, locate a lesion in simulated human organs, guide a device to it and take multiple samples.
“Earlier this year we demonstrated that a robot directed by artificial intelligence can on its own locate simulated calcifications and cysts in simulated breast tissue with high repeatability and accuracy,” said Kaicheng Liang. a former student in the laboratory of Stephen Smith, director of the Duke University Ultrasound Transducer Group at the Pratt School of Engineering and senior member of the research team.
“Now we have shown that the robot can sample up to eight different spots in simulated human prostate tissue,” Liang told Richard Merritt for a Duke News Service article.
An earlier study reported in the January issue of the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology described the Duke team’s results on simulated breast tissue. In both experiments, whole turkey breasts were used. Raw turkey breasts are commonly used in medical research because the tissue closely resembles that of humans in texture and density, and appear similar when scanned by ultrasound.
The Duke team combined a “souped-up” version of an existing robot arm with an ultrasound system of its own design. The ultrasound serves as the robot’s “eyes” by collecting data from its scan and locating its target. The robot is “controlled” not by a physician, but by an artificial intelligence program that takes the real-time 3-D information, processes it and gives the robot specific commands to perform.
The robot arm has a mechanical “hand” that can manipulate the same biopsy plunger device that physicians use to reach a lesion and take samples.’
Duke reseachers say they believe routine medical procedures, such as biopsies in other tissues in the body, will be performed in the future with minimal human guidance, and at greater convenience and less cost to patients.
An important challenge to be overcome is the speed of data acquisition and processing, though the researchers are confident that faster processors and better algorithms will address that issue. To be clinically useful, all of the robot’s actions would need to be in real time, the researchers said.
Tags: Duke University, Healthcare, Medical Device, robot surgery
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
 The Oncosocpe Device DURHAM, NC – Oncoscope, a medical device company that develops proprietary optical imaging systems, has raised $1.5 million of a mixed equity, debt and securities offering, the company confirms.
Oncoscope was founded in June, 2006 to develop clinical applications of discoveries in the field of optical imaging pioneered by Dr. Adam Wax at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Duke University. The company raised a $2 million A round and is backed by NC Idea and Southeast TechInventures. It also received a number of SBIR grants, including on for $1 million last year.
These discoveries are known as Angle-resolved Low Coherence Interferometry (a/LCI) and arose from work supported by grants to Duke University from the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.
Oncoscope recently completed its commercial a/LCI system prototype and has commenced clinical testing under a multi-center study sponsored by an SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry (a/LCI) is a breakthrough biomedical imaging technology which uses the properties of scattered light to measure the average size of cell structures, including cell nuclei. The technology shows promise as a clinical tool for in situ tissue measurements.
The first two clinical sites in this trial are The Center for Esophageal Diseases & Swallowing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill under the direction of Dr. Nicholas J. Shaheen and the Thompson Cancer Survival Center in Knoxville, TN under the direction of Dr. Bergein F. Overholt.
The company disclosed the raise in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tags: Dr. Adam Wax, Duke University, financing, imaging, Medical Device, NC, Oncoscope
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
 Duke University DURHAM, NC – Duke University has received a $10.2 million grant from the Robertson Foundation to create a Translational Cell Therapy Center. The center will focus on the University’s cell therapy research and treatment programs.
The center will look at treatments for cancer, cerebral palsy, stroke, and brain injuries.
“The emerging field of regenerative medicine has great promise, and this generous gift will accelerate the pace of Dr. Kurtzberg’s and other Duke scientists’ world-renowned, translational work in cell therapies,” said Dr. Victor Dzau, Duke chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the Duke University Health System.
“The creation of the TCTC will support the work of many Duke researchers exploring various applications of cell-based therapies,” he added.
Duke researchers have spent decades studying the therapeutic use of umbilical cord blood stem cells, which have the ability to develop into various types of specific cells.
Duke will use part of the foundation grant to create a laboratory where the cells can be harvested and stored.
Tags: Biotech, Duke University, Durham, grants, NC
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