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BU Ignition Award Winners’ Innovations Could Reduce Knee Pain, Extend Lives of Cancer Patients, and Propel Underwater Robot

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BU biomedical engineer Carolyn Marar (center) won an Ignition Award for her work with researchers Daniel Taub (left) and Venetia Zachariou (right) on a drug-free technology to tackle knee pain. Photo by Cydney Scott.

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BU Ignition Award Winners’ Innovations Could Reduce Knee Pain, Extend Lives of Cancer Patients, and Propel Underwater Robot

Annual entrepreneurship awards given to research projects ready to make the leap from the lab to real-world impact.

September 16, 2026
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Read the BU Brink article by Andrew Thurston to learn more about the BU Ignition awards and the role of BU Chobanian & Avedisian faculty including Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Daniel Taub, PhD, Steven C. Borkan, MD, Laurence H. Beck, MD, PhD, and Daniel Cifuentes, PhD.

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