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Harvard launched a new licensing model across three technology pathways: Engineering & Technology, Medical Device, and Software, to help academic innovators turn promising ideas into real-world products faster and more efficiently. 

From the labs of Pam Silver, Elliot T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Wyss Institute Core Faculty member, and Michael Springer, Professor of Systems Biology at HMS and Wyss Institute Associate Faculty member, a research team led by Neil Dalvie, a Fellow in Systems Biology at HMS, is developing a technology that uses engineered bacterial strains to accelerate mineral weathering. The research was supported by Harvard's Climate and Sustainability Translational Fund.

Harvard engineers have developed Mobilio, a smartphone app that uses AI, built-in sensors, and personalized audio beeps to give users with blindness or low vision continuous guidance and obstacle avoidance. Ph.D. student Raymond Liu led the research in collaboration with Patrick Slade, assistant professor of bioengineering at John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and associate faculty member of the Kempner Institute. The Harvard Grid Accelerator supported the research.

Researchers show that brain cells cultured in a dish can mimic normal cerebral development and even retain “memory” of their own histories. This research, led by  Paola Arlotta, Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard, was supported by the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator.