Mission
Our goal is to provide a bridge for young startups to cross the entrepreneurial ‘valley of death’ so they arrive at a point where they will attract investment.
- Collaborate: Accelerate technology development to enable strategic industry partnerships
- Innovate: Increase the odds of successful commercialization by combining the scientific rigor of academic inventors with the expertise of seasoned product development mentors
- Grow: Provide a blueprint for the commercialization of innovative technologies, and disseminate and export this model to other institutions
- Launch: Facilitate the development of Duke spin-out companies by positioning them for equity investment
Our Team
BRiDGE Facilities
The BRiDGE is located in the Chesterfield building, a former cigarette factory redeveloped into a life sciences and technology research facility in downtown Durham, NC.
Amenities Include:
- Access to Duke University Libraries and resources
- Building access to secured lab space 24/7
- Conference rooms for booking
- Kitchens in-suite and on-floor
- Parking deck and free guest parking
- Utilities included (heat, electric, water, sewer)
- Wi-fi
- Professional facilities management and janitorial services
Shared Equipment
- AKTA Pure Chromatography
- Autoclave
- Bioreactor
- Biosafety Cabinet
- Centrifuge
- Chemical Storage Cabinets
- CO2 Incubators
- DI water system
- Eyewash & Safety showers
- Formlabs 3D Printer
- Fume Hoods
- Gel electrophoresis tools
- Gel imager
- Glass Washer
- House air & vacuum
- Keysight Oscilloscope
- Lab Oven
- Microfluidizer
- Microscopes
- pH meter
- Pipettes (single & multi)
- Plate reader
- Refrigerators and Freezers
- Spectrophotometers
- Stir and hot plates
- Thermal cycler
- Vortex, Rocker, Shaker
- Water bath
Our Startups
Boundless Science
Boundless Science solves challenges of diffusion in practical applications.
Cerulean
Cerulean Scientific offers a unique slippery omniphobic coating for medical devices to resists pathogen colonization and thrombosis.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue is developing its revolutionary T-LineTM Hernia Mesh and Anchor Clip technology, featuring integral suture-like extensions designed to reduce the unacceptably high rate of hernia occurrence and recurrence.
GuidSET
GuidSET aims to improve patient outcomes for trauma-based and point-of-care procedures by developing user-friendly surgical devices that provide various forms of feedback during operation.
inSoma Bio
inSoma Bio has developed Fractomers, a platform of core protein biomatrices composed of carefully controlled ratios of structured physical cross-linking domains, bio-active sequences (when desired), and unstructured regions for tunable thermo-responsiveness.
Osteocure Therapeutics
Osteocure Therapeutics has developed an injectable treatment for bone fractures that both increases the healing potential and accelerates the fracture repair timeline.
PROTECT3D
Protect3d leverages 3D scanning and printing technologies to create anatomically-precise protective devices, each optimized for an individual athlete’s comfort, mobility, and protection.
QATCH
QATCH has developed its flagship technology, nanovisQTM, a wide dynamic range viscometer capable of rapidly screening microliters of sample formulations to optimize for injectability and manufacturability in very early stages of drug development.
Reselute
Reselute is developing solutions for treatment of orthopedic related infections to accelerate treatment and improve patient care, using innovative technologies based on years of academic research.
Roke
Roke leverages its 2-stage protein expression and purification technologies to streamline protein manufacturing processes. Website: www.rokebio.com
SimplusDX
SimplusDX aims to develop and commercialize a point-of-care immunoassay technology.
Viamer Biosciences
Viamer Biosciences offers new, highly advanced degradable polymers for use in medical devices and drug delivery.
Calla Health Foundation
The mission of Calla Health Foundation is to create point of care innovations that are designed to sustainably improve access to care in settings where women suffer from structural and social barriers.