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From Idea to Reality: Exciting Duke Inventions of 2025
This year’s Invented at Duke event earlier this month brought nine inventor teams under one roof, each showcasing early-stage technologies that blend scientific expertise with practical problem solving to make the world – and the people in it – healthier and safer. Dr. Mustafa Bashir and Jacob Macdonald of the Duke University School of Medicine demonstrated an AI-powered software that helps de-identify clinical data for privacy. “We just finished a job with five million images that took our computer two weeks to do, and it would have taken someone working full time
December 11, 2025Two Duke innovators will become NAI Fellows: Aravind Asokan, for gene therapy delivery work, and Adam Wax, for medical imaging and optics advances...
December 1, 2025Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. and the world, and damage to the heart is hard to repair – often requiring surgery. But what if other treatments like gene therapy could offer new, less invasive approaches to heart care? That’s w...
November 19, 2025In a study led by Duke, drones dispatched for cardiac arrest calls in Forsyth County, N.C., alongside EMS could cut response times by up to 40 percent...