The BHIRC is participating with the IU Innovation and Commercialization Office (ICO) and the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) in the SBA FAST program, which is responsible for helping faculty and students apply for and win more SBIR/STTR grants to start new businesses. The NIIC is coordinating this effort by providing the training while the… Read more »
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BHIRC collaborates on multidisciplinary committee across the IUPUI campus
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 »
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 »
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 »
BHIRC educating the community
The response to our new social media sites has been remarkable in the amount of interest they have generated. Health Informatics is a relatively new field so most people aren’t aware of what it can provide. The BHIRC is educating the community about the power of combining computer science, data analytics, social science related to… Read more »
BHIRC has received its first external funding
The BHIRC has received its first external funding to start fulfilling its mission of bringing informatics expertise to the life science community of Indiana. The IBRI has entered into an agreement with the BHIRC. This agreement includes the provision of services to assist in the good work the IBRI is doing in finding solutions for… Read more »
Gary Schwebach was recently invited to join the Accelerating Innovation Mentoring
Gary Schwebach was recently invited to join the Accelerating Innovation Mentoring or AIM program. This is a newly formed program to connect startup companies in the life science space with people who have the experience and education to help them get their companies started on the right foundation. BioCrossroads has established this program based on… Read more »