NEWS
The latest from the Dartmouth entrepreneurial community.
From Ideas to Pitches: Startup Weekend Inspires Future Founders
The event immersed participants in a comprehensive crash-course program in entrepreneurship and startup formation.
Digital Health Accelerator Awards $175,000 To Advance Three Winning Projects
The innovations include video games for mental health, a tool for providing reputable medical information to patients, and a surgical navigation system.
Dartmouth Entrepreneurship Shines in San Francisco
Software executive Lew Cirne ’93 and Hollywood producer Chris Meledandri ’81 are inducted into Dartmouth’s Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame at a Sept. 5 dinner in San Francisco organized by the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship
When cancer patients lose tissue and bone, this engineer replaces and repairs them.
Tissue engineers at Dartmouth are developing methods to repair, rehabilitate, and replace such damaged tissue. Their work, led by Katie Hixon, PhD, clinical assistant professor of orthopaedics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and assistant professor of engineering at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, aims to improve the quality of life for patients after cancer treatment.
The Power of Play: How one doctor turned to video games to prevent health issues
Lynn Fiellin, MD, had heard it over and over from patients she was treating for addiction and other related conditions: ‘If only I knew as a kid what I know now.’ So Fiellin decided to test that proposition. Could she find a way to effectively communicate adult lessons to children, and in doing so prevent them from ever facing addiction, sexually transmitted infections like HIV, or other negative health outcomes?
Dartmouth Celebrates Alumni ‘Lives of Impact’
Software executive Lew Cirne ’93 and Hollywood producer Chris Meledandri ’81 are inducted into Dartmouth’s Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame at a Sept. 5 dinner in San Francisco organized by the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship.
Former Accelerator Team Moves Forward with Venture Capital Backing
cosMYC, a company that grew out of research supported by the Dartmouth Innovation Accelerator for Cancer, is working to identify potential new cancer drugs.