An update on the progress of IURTC’s Spin Up entrepreneurial development program was recently featured on Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick.
Joining the host (right) to discuss Spin Up’s recent successes were Spin Up director Joe Trebley (center) and Anantha Shekhar (left).
Shekhar, a professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and neurobiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and director of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, is also a co-founder of Anagin, one of the companies launched through Spin Up. With Spin Up’s help, Anagin recently received a $692,706 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop more effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and in October won BioCrossroads’ third annual New Venture Competition.
The segment initially was be televised in Indianapolis at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 26, on WFYI (a PBS affiliate) and 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 30, on WTHR (an NBC affiliate).
Additional TV and radio broadcast times statewide are available here, or view the segment here.