Tag: Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge

  • Nation & World

    Celebrating cross-University innovation

    The Challenge is open to students and alumni from all Harvard Schools, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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    Klarman Hall full for President's Innovation Challenge.
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    Students’ innovations recognized for real-world impact

    The President’s Innovation Challenge recognized three student ventures, STEMgem, OZÉ, and PionEar, with $75,000 in prize money from the Bertarelli Foundation to help them turn their ideas into impactful, real-world ventures.

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    Pres Challenge winners
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    2016 Harvard Deans’ Challenges winners announced

    The 2016 winners of the Harvard Deans’ Challenges were announced in a ceremony at the Harvard i-lab on May 4. In its fourth year, the startup competition received more than 90 proposals from ventures representing 12 Harvard schools.

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  • Nation & World

    Two Deans’ Challenges garner 90 proposals

    Ten student-led teams have been named finalists in the Deans’ Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge and the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge. Grand prize winners will be named on May 4.

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    Deans’ Challenges winners

    Five student-led teams at Harvard were named winners in the third annual Deans’ Challenges, focusing on health and life sciences, cultural entrepreneurship, the food system, and innovation in sports.

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  • Nation & World

    Into the finals

    Ten student teams have been named finalists for the 2015 President’s Challenge, Harvard President Drew Faust announced.

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  • Nation & World

    The cellular origin of fibrosis

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and other conditions.

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  • Nation & World

    Let the challenges begin

    President Drew Faust and Provost Alan M. Garber today announced the third President’s Challenge for entrepreneurship, renewing an invitation to all Harvard students and postdoctoral fellows to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems.

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  • Nation & World

    Challenge met

    MatriTarg Laboratories, a venture created by a team of Harvard fellows seeking new ways to diagnose and treat solid organ fibrosis, claimed the grand prize in the inaugural Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge.

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  • Nation & World

    Finalists in health, science challenge

    Harvard University announced the selection of eight finalist teams in the inaugural Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge on April 4.

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    A call for creative know-how

    The Dean’s Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge aims to harness the University’s entrepreneurial spirit to help promote and sustain the arts.

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    Deans announce new challenge

    Thirteen deans from Schools across Harvard today announced $150,000 in new entrepreneurship challenges, expanding Harvard support for student innovation and cross-School collaborations with broad social and cultural impact.

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