Posts by Kelly Burch

The innovations include video games for mental health, a tool for providing reputable medical information to patients, and a surgical navigation system. The second cohort of the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Digital Health (DIADH) has concluded, culminating in the awarding of $175,000 to three projects that promise to revolutionize health care.  Choosing which projects to…

The money will be used to help early-stage ventures move their ideas forward through beta testing, legal consultation, development of a minimal viable product, and more. The Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship has awarded grants totaling nearly $20,000 to help nine Dartmouth startups move forward with their entrepreneurial endeavors. The grants, announced earlier this month, include…

Three Dartmouth Teams sponsored by the Magnuson Center Compete for the Hult Prize, $1M in Funding The team behind NovaChirp will attend the summit in Portugal, while other Dartmouth teams attend summits in Dubai and Mexico. After winning an on-campus competition, three Dartmouth student-led teams from the Magnuson Center will pitch their social entrepreneurship ideas…

The second cohort of the accelerator is now underway, with 12 participant teams working to bring science-based digital therapeutics and digital health tools to market. The second cohort of the Dartmouth Innovation Accelerator for Digital Health (DIADH) is currently underway, with 12 participant teams receiving mentorship on entrepreneurship and translating technologies, as they vie for…

The program was hosted by Social Impact Partners, a global coalition aimed at ending dementia, founded by a Dartmouth alum and her daughter, a current Dartmouth undergrad. A Dartmouth team has taken first place in the Brain Health Innovation Olympics, a competition hosted by Social Impact Partners, a global nonprofit consortium founded by a Dartmouth…

Founded by two first-generation college students, Fledge makes recruiting more equitable, and provide a modern, streamlined approach to applying for jobs. As first-generation college students applying for jobs in finance, Yizhen Zhen ’24 and Jason Luo ’25 felt utterly overwhelmed. “Both of us walked face-first into the wall multiple times,” said Zhen. The two identified…

Five Accelerator teams are utilizing $100,000 in funding to quickly advance projects ranging from drug repurposing that will make chemo more powerful to a hand-held device to help patients avoid biopsies. Dr. Tyler J. Curiel is working toward a world where every cancer patient has a viable treatment available to them. “I’d love to make…

Eight of the ten teams in the current cohort of the Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer have students playing pivotal roles. When Ian Glick D’26 enrolled in Dartmouth as an undeclared undergrad, he never imagined that he’d be working to cure cancer and learning from leaders in biotech innovation alongside medical doctors, senior faculty, and…

The microscope has the potential to revolutionize cancer diagnostics and treatment. The DALI team working on the SmartScope, pictured with Dr. Aravindhan Sriharan, center. As a pathologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock, Dr. Aravindhan Sriharan has learned firsthand that cancer diagnosis has been unable to utilize the benefits of digital imaging, because evaluating patient samples on a…

The recipients range from a platform to expand opportunities for creatives of color, to an app to help demystify the college application process. Cooper Weissman received $2,500 in Magnuson Center funding for his startup, Nerd Apply. The latest round of the Magnuson Center Founder Grants awarded $12,000 to Dartmouth Entrepreneurs working on six distinct projects. …