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![]() ![]() “It’s pretty rare to see that combination, especially in a very early stage in one’s career.” “She was able to synthesize problems, look at unique ways to solve them, and then present the results,” Gall said. “I learned a ton,” Kelly said, “everything from CAD modeling and design work, to manufacturing prototypes, to the marketing and commercial side of things.”īefore wrapping up her undergrad, Kelly added an internship with another company co-founded by Gall: Vertera Spine, which later became a Duke Capital Partners portfolio company and was acquired by NuVasive. There she made a fateful connection with the company’s co-founder Professor Ken Gall – who, before his current appointments at Duke University, was at Georgia Tech. Credit: Ken Gall/Duke University.ĭuring her time at Georgia Tech, Kelly learned about medical device development as an R&D co-op with the medical device company MedShape, which was later acquired by Enovis. Ken Gall is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. She quickly found her calling in the medical device space, learning to design solutions to improve the lives of patients. “I wanted to do something related to medicine, but I knew I didn’t want to be a doctor,” she said. When Kelly chose biomedical engineering as her undergraduate major at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she wasn’t sure what the field encompassed. ![]() program, Kelly is now pursuing her goal of developing innovative solutions to difficult clinical problems in orthopedics with not one but two start-ups – the most recent of which, Reselute, has just received seed funding from Duke Capital Partners. Together with a mentor and a strong team built during her time at Duke, Kelly is an up-and-coming entrepreneur dedicated to the medical device space right here in the Triangle – a dedication gaining recognition beyond the Triangle, Kelly recently having been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.Ī 2020 graduate of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. ![]() “That kind of work taught me a lot about solving hard problems.”īut she isn’t going at it alone. student, you are an independent contributor – but you work collaboratively with other students on projects in the lab,” Cambre Kelly said. ![]()
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