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March 30th, 2021

Patents issued January-March 2021

The USPTO recognized Harvard innovations in treating diabetes, nanopore-based DNA encoding, NQR spectroscopy, diagnosis of prostate cancer, conditioning for stem cell transplantation, and much more

Stock illustration of discovery in a chemistry lab.

February 25th, 2021

Harvard University and Kyowa Kirin enter strategic research alliance

Multiyear collaboration to advance innovation in therapeutics and biomedical technology platforms

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February 4th, 2021

Harvard’s metalens technology enters commercial development

Mass. startup Metalenz, Inc., to bring flat optics to consumer electronics and more

The ultra-thin planar lens in this 2016 illustration consists of titanium dioxide nanofins on a glass substrate. Illustration courtesy of Peter Allen/Harvard SEAS.

January 15th, 2021

Leading universities launch joint technology licensing program

UTLP pools a subset of universities' intellectual property portfolios in the areas of connectivity, autonomous vehicles, and data applications

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January 6th, 2021

Patents issued October-December 2020

The USPTO recognized Harvard innovations in soft robotics, antifungals, sub-diffraction-limit imaging, nanopore sensing, optogenetics, and much more