Research
Duke is a leader in transforming its knowledge into solutions for the world.
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Interdisciplinary Approach
Duke is one of the world’s top research institutions. The university encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and a free-flowing exchange of ideas by connecting researchers across schools, units and departments. With the ease to pursue work across campus, these partnerships result in fascinating — and sometimes surprising — outcomes.
Research
Office of Research & Innovation
The Office of Research and Innovation (OR&I) oversees both research compliance and funding of our world-renowned researchers and facilities, as well as the development and application of Duke’s intellectual property.
Funding
Duke connects researchers with funding opportunities to help accelerate their work on solving the world’s most pressing issues.
Finding Funding
The Office for Research & Innovation provides this extensive, online database of internal and external funding opportunities as a resource for the entire Duke University research community.
Connect With a Foundation
The Office of Foundation Relations strives to make the entire foundation funding process seamless for faculty and administrative projects.
Translational Funding
Through the Office for Translation & Commercialization, Duke connects researchers to a variety of internal and external funding opportunities to accelerate applied research projects and startups.
Supporting Duke-affiliated Entrepreneurs
Duke Capital Partners is the university’s official early-stage venture investment group, where members invest in and support Duke-affiliated startups.
Connecting with Companies and Orgs
The Office for External Partnerships connects external companies and organizations with researchers and projects at Duke to accelerate research and innovation.
Innovation Ecosystem
Shifting research into practical application is as engaging as the research itself.
Think like an entrepreneur
Turn Ideas into Action
Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship provides courses, programs, mentorship, funding, and community to help Duke students and alumni build an entrepreneurial mindset and
INVENTIONS & IP
From Idea to Reality
The Office for Translation & Commercialization works closely with Duke inventors,
company partners and the venture community to support translational research, protect
intellectual property, launch startups and license technologies to industry and ensure
societal impact of Duke innovations.
FIND A PARTNER
Partnering for Success
Duke’s Office for External Partnerships connects external companies and organizations
with researchers and projects at Duke to accelerate research and innovation.
Out In The World
Research from Duke is making it to the real world and improving health, daily life, and the economy.
real-time satellite
Extellis
Michael Boyarsky’s metamaterial satellite antennas are poised to enhance operations
for many industries, from farming to natural disaster prediction.
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VQ Biomedical
This Duke startup is developing a minimally-invasive catheter-based oxygenator for use in trauma care.
CANCER CARE
A New Glioma Drug
The newest brain cancer drug approved by the FDA has roots in research conducted by Duke researchers and clinicians.
Duke’s commitment to faculty advancement and interdisciplinary collaboration helps foster innovative work that addresses some of our most critical issues while creating the next generation of entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and societal leaders.
– Alec Gallimore, Provost
Research Support
The research process is complicated. Here are resources for the Duke community.
Research Guidance
Grants, Contracts, and Compliance, Oh My!
The Office of Research Support (ORS) manages pre-award research administration and certain post-award functions for campus schools, including proposal review, grant and contract negotiation, compliance, and implementation of research policies.
student support
Empowering Student Discovery
Undergraduate Research Support (URS) Office promotes undergraduate research in collaboration with faculty, community and campus partners and offers programming to help students identify research opportunities.
Data Support
Compute and Data Services Alliance (CDSA) for Research
This multiyear, faculty-driven program improves computational and data services across identified priorities, allowing scholars to focus on their research.
Science and Human Health
Research Support for Schools of Medicine and Nursing
The School of Medicine provides assistance for faculty and researchers at all levels, to help ensure successful research projects that advance science and human health.
Services
myRESEARCH Suite
myRESEARCHsuite encompasses three services that provide unique yet integrated support to the Duke research community.
Academics Making a Difference
Researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs work on a range of societal issues.
Edward Triplett
Using tools such as drone photography and 3D modeling, Edward Triplett reconstructs historic fortifications to tell untold stories about people and places.
Christopher Eaglin
Christopher Eaglin researches what strategies companies should pursue that would lead to sustainable and flourishing communities.
Nanthia Suthana
Nanthia Suthana is on a quest to tap the potential of Deep-Brain Stimulation to help those with Alzheimer’s and PTSD.
Where the Research Happens
Duke’s research spans across its 12 schools and a robust suite of university-wide institutes and centers. We’re known for combining disciplines to find novel approaches to problem-solving.
Trinity School of Arts and Sciences
Our programs are defined by the university’s culture of cross-disciplinary research and education. As a result, the whole of Duke serves as a resource for the arts, sciences, and social sciences. Our research informs and deepens student and faculty exploration of artistic expression, natural sciences, global cultural themes, and the university’s goal of knowledge in service of society.
Duke Divinity School
In addition to robust faculty scholarship and publishing, Duke Divinity supports interdisciplinary research in clergy health, the arts, leadership formation, and thriving rural communities.
Duke-Kunshan University (DKU)
Duke Kunshan University’s interdisciplinary framework draws on multiple disciplines and integrates knowledge and research methodologies.
Duke-National University Singapore School of Medicine
With our strategic focus on diseases that are prevalent in Southeast Asia, our five Signature Research Programmes enable our research faculty to pursue multidisciplinary research in basic and translational science to help address some of the leading public health concerns, including aging, cancer, cardiometabolic, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases.
Fuqua School of Business
Connecting our research faculty with practitioners in a range of sectors, Fuqua’s centers draw out the strengths in people with different knowledge sets in ways that create new perspectives for our scholarship and teaching.
Duke Law School
Duke Law School is home to 16 centers, institutes, and programs in which faculty engage in cutting-edge research and education on subjects of critical importance to the law, public policy, and society.
Nicholas School of the Environment
Nicholas School research spans more than 40 disciplines in 16 broad-based focal areas. We apply our research expertise to determine solutions to the most pressing environmental issues facing our world.
Pratt School of Engineering
Duke Engineering is a leader in defining and advancing the high-impact fields that will develop solutions to the biggest challenges facing society and the planet.
Sanford School of Public Policy
Faculty members collaborate across disciplines to explore questions relating to income inequality, obesity and hunger, energy policy, child neglect and abuse, access to health care, democratization, foreign policy and global concerns.
Duke University School of Medicine
The combined efforts of the school’s basic and clinical faculty members in 26 departments, and numerous centers, institutes and initiatives make Duke one of the largest biomedical research enterprises in the country with $1 billion in sponsored research expenditures annually.
Duke School of Nursing
The Duke University School of Nursing’s Center for Nursing Research (CNR) provides faculty, students, and Duke University Health System nurses with the resources to transform nursing and healthcare through impactful research.
Duke Science & Technology
Innovation and
Ambition in Science and Technology
Duke is reshaping the way we educate tomorrow’s leaders in science and technology.
doing good
Duke Research Saves Lives
Federal funding has led to many life-saving discoveries at Duke. Learn how this important research has changed people’s lives across the U.S. and the world, and even in your own family.