Accelerate your ideas through customer discovery and market opportunity validation!

KickStart Venture Services is recruiting community startups as well as faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students with innovations and an interest in commercialization to participate in their virtual NSF I-Corps program. They will teach you the principles of customer discovery to help you better understand the market potential of your innovation!

The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps Program (I-Corps) was launched in 2011 and has quickly become one of the world’s largest and most successful technology commercialization accelerators. The I-Corps regional program helps researchers and aspiring innovators determine if they are solving a real-world problem with true market opportunity. NSF’s I-Corps Program not only provides funding, mentoring, and networking opportunities to help commercialize promising technologies, it is offered at NO COST to the community.

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For more information about the I-Corps Program, visit KickStart Venture Services.

CFAR–MISM Mini-Symposium: Bridging HIV Research, Modeling & Artificial Intelligence

This symposium will highlight interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of HIV research, modeling, and artificial intelligence and provide an opportunity for discussion and collaboration across programs.

2 - 3 p.m. | Harry Hochheiser, PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
The Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) Coordination Center: Supporting a community of infectious disease modeling researchers

3 - 4 p.m. | AI for HIV Panel Discussion
Panelists: Naseem Alavian, MD, MPH; Lance Okeke, MD, MPH; Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD
Moderator: Taylor Krajewski, PhD

4 - 5 p.m. | Michael Hudgens, PhD (UNC–Chapel Hill)
Counting Viruses: Estimating the Size of the Latent HIV Reservoir

Participate in-person in Durham or via Zoom.

This symposium was organized by the Duke University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH‑funded program (5P30 AI064518) and the Center of Multiscale Immune Systems Modeling (MISM), funded by NIAID/NIH (U54AI191253).