The BHIRC was invited to collaborate with a multidisciplinary committee across the IUPUI campus, including public health, social work, law, business, medicine, and the Herron School, to develop a proposal to seek external donor funding for addressing health issues in Indiana. As result of their efforts, the committee wrote and submitted a proposal to jointly… Read more »
Month: June 2020
BHIRC at Indiana Management Performance Hub Data Day
In February, Dr. Gary Schwebach represented the BHIRC at the recent Indiana Management Performance Hub Data Day event to introduce the Indiana State legislature and community to the power of data to inform good decision making. This started an initiative to bring the BHIRC into a closer working relationship with our state efforts to improve… Read more »
BHRIC becoming an integral part of local innovation
Dr. Schwebach has been in the spotlight quite a bit lately. In early March he accepted an invitation to join the organizing committee for the 5th Annual Innovation and Commercialization Conference, which is scheduled to be held at IU Bloomington on September 17, 2020. This important event brings industry and academia together to jointly explore… Read more »
BHIRC collaborates on HRSA grant application
Early this year BHIRC was pleased to have coordinated with Dr. Huanmei Wu and Dr. Cathy Fulton to develop a HRSA grant application in collaboration with the IU School of Medicine and the Indiana Primary Health Care Association. The goal is to develop a program to predict which expectant mothers would experience health problems during… Read more »
BHIRC attends 16th Annual Parkview Research Symposium
As part of its ongoing mission to build a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and innovative informatics community, the BHIRC attended the 16th Annual Parkview Research Symposium, on March 5, to represent SOIC and meet with the healthcare industry leaders to identify potential collaboration opportunities between the school and Indiana companies. This gave attendees a front-row seat in learning… Read more »
Greetings and salutations from BHIRC
Greetings and salutations from BHIRC. We have postponed updates for the past few months due to recent world events, but we would like you to take some time in the coming weeks to update you on what we have been working on. Throughout the late fall and early winter, BHIRC joined in multiple SOIC advisory… Read more »
BHIRC active in bringing SOIC faculty intellectual property to the commercialization stage
Dr. Schwebach and the BHIRC have been active in their effort to bring SOIC faculty intellectual property to the commercialization stage, and to that end, Dr. Schwebach met with Simran Trana, the newly appointed Associate Vice President of the IU Innovation and Commercialization Office to develop a joint cooperative effort to do just that. Some… Read more »
Xiaowen Liu appointed as the new co-director of the BioHealth Informatics Research Center
Xiaowen Liu has been appointed as the new co-director of the BioHealth Informatics Research Center, effective May 15, 2020. Dr. Liu is a recognized expert in the use of proteonomics in diagnosing medical conditions and brings his expertise to the BHIRC as it expands its scope to provide Indiana companies and non-profits with advanced bioinformatics… Read more »