DeSimone’s breakthroughs to improve human health include 3D printed dentures, nanomedicines for cancer therapy, drug delivery devices that can be implanted and tailored to a patient’s needs and an inhalable pulmonary vaccine platform that can be used to target diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.
DeSimone’s breakthroughs to improve human health include 3D printed dentures, nanomedicines for cancer therapy, drug delivery devices that can be implanted and tailored to a patient’s needs and an inhalable pulmonary vaccine platform that can be used to target diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.
DeSimone has nearly 200 patents issued in his name, with more than 200 pending, and is one of the few people who has been elected to all three branches of the U.S. National Academies.
UNC-Chapel Hill has been named an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public Land Grant Universities.
U.S. News & World Report ranks UNC-Chapel Hill as the No. 4 undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the country.
Current Carolina students Eliza Harrison, Lucy Best and Emily Kian will pitch their startup company to world leaders at the United Nations headquarters this weekend.
UNC-Chapel Hill startup companies and social ventures provide an increasing number of jobs and a growing revenue stream to local economies.
