Product @ Duke

GameRun Sponsored Project 

 

A partnership with GameRun Inc. to develop an athlete performance tracker. The project team used AI, biometrics, and patent-pending visual language models to track athletes' performance and receive personalized training insights. 

 

Railinc Sponsored Project

A collaboration with Railinc on an innovation to advance freight rail efficiency. The project team developed an AI-powered railcar billing platform that ensures speed and accuracy for both rail veterans and newcomers.

Christensen Center Sponsored Project

Duke's Christensen Family Center for Innovation collaborated with a student project team on an AI chat bot that helps partners easily describe their project ideas and automatically generate structured project briefs to streamline collaboration.

Clark Scholars Forge Connections on Duke’s Campus During Annual Summit

Students tackled community-centered design challenges, engaged in service projects and connected to socially conscious engineering education efforts during the three-day Summit event hosted at Duke campus in September 2025.

Student Highlight:

Andrew Dawson

Degree / Major: Master's in Engineering Management

"I was drawn to Product Management because of the way it sits at the intersection of technology and the way it impacts people. Growing up in Hawaii, I was raised with values of community and responsibility to care for others, and I love how values like empathy and connectedness are core aspects of building successful products. I like how PMs get to engage with individuals of all backgrounds and skills, and I really enjoy the dynamic thinking and constant problem-solving.

 

I am so grateful to Anna Wilson and everyone at CFCI for the opportunity to be part of something that I believe will make a huge impact on Duke’s aspiring product leaders for years to come."

Duke Student’s Startup Connects Students And Faculty For Babysitting

Duke student-founded startup Students Who Sit is bridging the gap between students and faculty by connecting families with trusted babysitters and has been featured in GrepBeat, a nonprofit media organization that covers tech startups for the Triangle and the rest of North Carolina. Students Who Sit is a recipient of The Christensen Center's GoBig Award, a program that supports tech-enabled new products and services that have the potential to create transformative, positive impact—made possible through the generosity of the Baquerizo Family. Students Who Sit also participated in Duke Product Lab's first Applied Product Management cohort.

inSoma Bio has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 MedTech Innovator Value Award

 

One of The Christensen Center's BRiDGE Incubator startup participants, inSoma Bio (Durham, NC) has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 MedTech Innovator Value Award. Being recognized among such strong global peers is a testament to InSoma Bio’s mission of “We Make Fat Amazing”, their innovative approach in the med-tech space, and the hard work of the founding team and everyone supporting them. The Value Award recognizes outstanding value propositions in healthcare—a spotlight they are more than ready for. 

From Coursework to Patient Care: Duke Design Health Team Innovates POTS Treatment

When recent biomedical engineering graduates Kishen Mitra and Sara Taube joined Duke’s Design Health program as juniors in the spring of 2023, they became interested in dysautonomia, a group of conditions affecting the body’s automatic functions.

 

“When someone close to me was diagnosed with POTS, I witnessed firsthand how difficult it is to navigate a condition that so few people understand,” Mitra said. “I soon learned that other people in my life were also affected, and I came to realize just how underserved this patient population is. I was determined to help change that, and Design Health seemed like a perfect fit for that goal.”

Student Highlight:

Parul Sirohi

"Joining the Christensen Family Center for Innovation’s Accelerator Program was one of the most exciting parts of my PhD journey. I’ve always loved research, but I’ve also felt a little frustrated that so much great work ends up confined to journal articles instead of being put to use in the real world. That’s actually why I joined the Chilkoti Lab at Duke—because their translational research has a strong track record of spinning out real startups. By the time I reached the final year of my PhD, I was eager to see if my own research could take that path too. The Accelerator seemed like the perfect way to learn how to bridge the gap between the lab and the marketplace."

 

 

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