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Picture of thyroid

| Duke Cancer Institute

Using Light, AI to See Cancer in Real Time

Researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) are working with collaborators at leading academic medical centers to explore a faster, less invasive way to detect and analyze head and neck cancers using light and artificial intelligence.

Ken Brown sharing research

| Pratt News

Ken Brown Shares Vision for Duke Quantum Center

New Duke Quantum Center Director Ken Brown shares his plans to expand partnerships, advance quantum research and education, and position the Research Triangle as a hub for quantum innovation.

Girl with robot

| Pratt News

Discover Engineering@Duke: Imagine. Build. Belong.

The Pratt School of Engineering invites community members of all ages to spend the afternoon with Duke Engineering faculty, staff, and students.

An artistic drawing of cells dying through apoptosis, a natural process that can be synthetically triggered through the use of PROTACs.

| Pratt News

Bursting Cancer-Seeking Microbubbles to Deliver Deadly Drugs

New ultrasound-based approach to getting relatively large therapeutics into cancer cells shows promise in benchtop experiments.

Phd Student over optics table

| Pratt News

Trapping Light on Thermal Photodetectors Shatters Speed Records

Metasurfaces featuring tailored silver nanocubes could allow thermal photodetectors to approach speeds akin to traditional digital cameras.

The Pocket Colposcope

| Duke School of Medicine

A Pocket-Sized Diagnostic with Global Reach

Duke researchers bring AI‑powered cervical imaging to clinics in Kenya and rethink how diagnosis could work everywhere

A colorful, high-resolution look at the blood vessels in a mice brain using technology developed by Pengfei Song and his laboratory. The same technique will now be used to better image the human lymphatic system.

| Pratt News

A New Vision for Lymphatic Imaging

Pengfei Song is part of a team led by the University of Alberta, which has received an ARPA-H award to create high-resolution, 3D ultrasound for lymphedema imaging.

Professor John Hickey

| Pratt News

John Hickey Receives V Foundation Scholar Award to Improve T Cell Cancer Therapies

The award will fuel Hickey’s efforts to reveal how T cells can better infiltrate and attack solid tumors

Duke Engineering spinoff company Extellis announced an oversubscribed $6.8 million round of seed funding.

| Pratt News

Unlocking Reliable Satellite Imagery at an Industrial Scale

Duke Engineering spinoff company Extellis announced an oversubscribed $6.8 million round of seed funding.

Kidney CCH

| Pratt News

Congenital Heart Disease Mutation Linked to Kidney Damage

Discovering the link between congenital heart disease and kidney problems could improve outcomes for patients with the disease

Jessilyn Dunn Receives IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award

| Pratt School of Engineering

Jessilyn Dunn Receives IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award

Dunn was recognized for her work to use wearable technologies

Inside Duke’s Plan for a Next-Gen Quantum Computer

| Pratt School of Engineering

Inside Duke’s Plan for a Next-Gen Quantum Computer

Team led by Duke Quantum Center advances toward designing a powerful 256-qubit quantum computer as part of a major NSF initiative for quantum technology.

The SPACE Initiative at Duke will foster strategic partnerships to pursue fundamental questions about the universe, pioneer innovations in space technology and policy, and educate the next generation of space researchers and policymakers. (Photo courtesy of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)

| Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Launches SPACE Initiative

Two Duke Engineering faculty members are heavily involved in the new interdisciplinary initiative, with BME master's alumna Anna Menon set to deliver the keynote lecture at the launch event.

Gold Nanostars created by Canning, which uses a hollow gold shell to stabilize the arms of the ‘star’

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Light-and-Sound-Based Thermometer Helps Gold Nanoparticles Destroy Cancer

By combining high-res imaging tools with light-absorbing nanostars, researchers can more precisely treat cancerous tumors

Dr. Dan Scolnic

| Duke Today

Dan Scolnic Named Presidential Fellow

Dan Scolnic Named Presidential Fellow The program provides a faculty member a year-long opportunity to experience firsthand the workings of university administration