Dr. Nancy Allbritton receives UNC-Chapel Hill’s Inventor of the Year Award

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April 30, 2017
By Brock

If there’s one invention Dr. Nancy Allbritton is hiding from the world, it might be a new kind of clock that gives her more than 24 hours to work each day, while the rest of the world struggles to keep pace. How else does she get it all done?

That’s at least what other UNC-Chapel Hill researchers and campus leaders might have been thinking as they gathered to honor Allbritton for her productive portfolio of work, translating lab-born university research ideas into a bevy of successful commercial ventures.

Allbritton, a Kenan Distinguished Professor and chair of the joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, has co-founded four startup companies and holds 11 patents, with 8 more pending. Those accomplishments, which grew from her diverse, multidisciplinary approach to research, recently earned her the prestigious Inventor of the Year award from UNC-Chapel Hill.

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