{"id":4068,"date":"2011-04-21T04:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2011-04-21T04:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T08:20:47","slug":"foundations-duke-university-start-biomed-engineering-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"Foundations, Duke University Start Biomed Engineering Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EndoscopeMicrocamera_AwaibaGmbH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3503\" title=\"Kameras aus dem Salzstreuer\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EndoscopeMicrocamera_AwaibaGmbH.jpg\" alt=\"Endoscope microcamera (Awaiba GmbH)\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pratt.duke.edu\/duke_coulter_2011\">Duke University<\/a> in Durham, North Carolina has created a $20 million endowment to encourage research collaborations between  bioengineers and clinicians that aims to develop new  technologies to improve patient care. Duke&#8217;s medical and engineering schools are taking part in the endowment.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whcf.org\/about\/the-coulter-foundation\" target=\"_blank\">Wallace H. Coulter Foundation<\/a> in Miami, Florida is funding half of the Duke Coulter Translational Partnership.\u00a0 Additional investments from Duke and the Fitzpatrick Foundation bring the endowment to $20 million for the Pratt School of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the Coulter Foundation chose Duke as one of nine universities to accelerate the movement of university biomedical engineering projects into commercial products and clinical practices. A key requirement is that each project must be led by a biomedical engineering faculty member and a clinical or medical school researcher.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, 19 Duke projects have been funded, including projects on detecting prostate cancer and esophageal pre-cancerous lesions, treating hemophilia and controlling urinary function for paraplegics. The projects at Duke have resulted in three start up companies, several licensing agreements, more than $35 million in venture capital and investments, and another $47 million in federal, state or foundation grants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke University in Durham, North Carolina has created a $20 million endowment to encourage research collaborations between bioengineers and clinicians that aims to develop new technologies to improve patient care. Duke&#8217;s medical and engineering schools are taking part in the endowment. The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in Miami, Florida is funding half of the Duke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[31,86,38,26],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-ventures","tag-biomedical","tag-engineering","tag-grant","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}