Professor Deblina Sarkar, head of the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group, is one of twelve faculty selected as the 2023-24 MIT Faculty Founder Innovation Fellow.  Presented by the MIT Faculty Founder Initiative and supported by Royalty Pharma, the prize aims to support female faculty entrepreneurs in biotechnology and provide them with resources to help take their ideas to commercialization through startups. All the faculty founders also receive a $10,000 stipend.

The MIT Faculty Founder Initiative was launched in 2020 by the MIT School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.