The 2025–2026 INDE Fellowship participants are tackling big challenges with bold ideas by transforming health care, advancing new technologies, and rethinking how we solve problems in everyday life. From the lab to real-world applications, their work reflects the creativity, curiosity, and impact that define the InDE Fellowship program.Meet the 2025-2026 InDE Fellowship researchers:
The cohort will meet bimonthly throughout the academic year at university-based and industry-focused innovation centers in Delaware including FinTech Innovation Hub, Chemours Discovery Hub, The Innovation Space, The Emerging Enterprise Center, and Gore Capabilities Center. Workshop topics focus on the development of critical knowledge, skillsets and connections needed to successfully bring new science and technology-based products and services to market. The fellowship concludes with an Innovation Showcase, where fellows share their vision for broader impact.
The InDE Fellowship aims to provide inventors, research scientists, innovators and aspiring entrepreneurs with an exceptional opportunity to learn about and gain first-hand experience with the process of translating ideas, discoveries and inventions from the laboratory to the marketplace. The Fellowship also serves as a catalyst for lab to market translation by facilitating valuable connections to the individual leaders and support organizations comprising Delaware’s innovation & entrepreneurship (I&E) ecosystem.
Horn Entrepreneurship serves as the creative engine for entrepreneurship education and advancement at the University of Delaware. Currently ranked among the best entrepreneurship programs in the US, Horn Entrepreneurship was built and is actively supported by successful entrepreneurs, empowering aspiring innovators as they pursue new ideas for a better world.