September 01, 2020

Duke Joins $115 Million Quantum Systems Accelerator

Duke University is joining 14 U.S. institutions in a five-year, $115 million effort to forge the technological solutions needed to harness quantum information science for discoveries that benefit the world. Funded by the Department of Energy, the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) will be led by [...]
August 27, 2020

Scientists Pair 3D Bioprinting and Computer Modeling to Examine Cancer Spread in Blood Vessels

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have paired 3D-printed, living human brain vasculature with Duke University's advanced computational flow simulations to better understand tumor cell attachment to blood vessels, the first step in secondary tumor formation during cancer metastasis [...]
August 03, 2020

AI May Offer a Better Way to ID Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown that different strains of the same bacterial pathogen can be distinguished by a machine learning analysis of their growth dynamics alone, which can then also accurately predict other traits such as resistance to antibiotics. The demonstration could [...]
August 03, 2020

Researchers Create Artificial Organelles to Control Cellular Behavior

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a method for controlling the phase separation of an emerging class of proteins to create artificial membrane-less organelles within human cells. The advance, similar to controlling how vinegar forms droplets within oil, creates opportunities [...]
July 21, 2020

Silver-Plated Gold Nanostars Detect Early Cancer Biomarkers

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a method for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple specific microRNAs in RNA extracted from tissue samples without the need for labeling or target amplification. The technique could be used to identify early biomarkers of cancer [...]
June 12, 2020

'Covidentify' Adapts to Address a Changing Pandemic

Researchers at Duke University are expanding a recent study intended to help identify the symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. This expanded effort will help the team establish a more comprehensive method of early-symptom detection and provide more information about [...]

Welcome to the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics

The Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics is an extensively interdisciplinary Duke University-wide effort to advance photonics and optical sciences.

The mission of the Fitzpatrick Institute is profoundly educational. The institute was founded in 2000 in part to meet an unmet industry need for graduates with the knowledge and skills to transform industrial R&D in photonics and optical science. Our faculty teach undergraduates, master's and doctoral students and foster the technical, collaboration, interdisciplinary exploration, and team-orientation skills set that enables our proteges to thrive in their chosen professions.

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Upcoming Seminars

Wed, Sep 23

FIP Virtual Seminar: Multiphoton autofluorescence imaging of immune cells in cancer

Dr. Melissa Skala, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:00 pm | Online

Wed, Oct 7

FIP Virtual Seminar: Causes and consequences of heterogeneity in proliferation-quiescence decisions

Dr. Sabrina Spencer, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder

12:00 pm | Online

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