Tag: Harvard Office of Technology Development
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Campus & Community
Harvard Grid to help researchers make leap from lab to startup
The new initiative is designed to help speed up the translation of innovations from University labs into startups that bring to market products and services addressing climate change, alternative energy, sustainability, and other global challenges.
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Science & Tech
‘Faster protection with less material’
Further research and development on a class of molecules called bisphosphonates might turbocharge a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, and help bring immunity to huge populations more quickly.
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Science & Tech
Ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi breakthrough
In a breakthrough on the road toward ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi, Harvard researchers have demonstrated for the first time a laser that can emit microwaves wirelessly, modulate them, and receive external radio frequency signals.
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Campus & Community
Deerfield commits $100M to create alliance with Harvard
With $100 million in initial funding, the health care investment firm Deerfield Management has established a major strategic R&D alliance with Harvard that will support early stage research and invest in the success of preclinical and clinical-stage commercial development.
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Health
Our blood, ourselves
Two Harvard-trained researchers, who bonded while battling epidemics in West Africa, are developing diagnostic technology to help women monitor their own health and fertility.
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Science & Tech
‘Pop!’ goes the robot
A production method inspired by children’s pop-up books enables rapid fabrication of tiny, complex devices. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and folding process will enable the creation of a broad range of electromechanical devices.
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Science & Tech
Reading life’s building blocks
A team led by Harvard researcher Charles Lieber has for the first time succeeded in creating a device that opens the door to using tiny holes called nanopores in an electrically charged membrane to quickly and easily sequence DNA.