Tag: Harvard Office of Technology Development

  • 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.

    4 minutes
    Science and Engineering Complex, where the Grid will be housed.
  • 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.

    13 minutes
    Professor Uli von Andrian.
  • 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.

    3 minutes
    Laser.
  • 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.

    3 minutes
  • 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.

    10 minutes
  • 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.

    5 minutes
  • 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.

    4 minutes