Posts by Kelly Burch

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. …

Researchers say that DIAC fills a gap in available funding sources, allowing them to collect the data they need to secure peer-reviewed grants. Over the past five years, immune checkpoint blockade drugs have revolutionized the treatment of cancer. Dr. Tyler J. Curiel, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Geisel School of Medicine, says these drugs…

The grants will support six endeavors founded by Dartmouth entrepreneurs and innovators. Mubarak Idoko D’23 wants to revolutionize the way that Nigerian students learn. His company, Lena, aims to do that by delivering all-in-one web-based learning management software that Nigerian schools can use to harness technology to improve learning outcomes. In the coming months, Idoko…

Virtual reality platforms developed in the DALI Lab are being integrated in classes ranging from theater to chemistry, giving students and faculty a new tool to facilitate education. When Macy Toppan D’22 first came into the DALI Lab, she had never worked on a virtual reality project. But the technology quickly swept her off her…