The BHIRC was approached by the Indiana Fire Chief’s Association (IFCA) to participate in a FEMA grant designed to ensure that Indiana has enough personnel in fire protection to serve the needs of the state. The IFCA is looking for a university partner who can provide advanced analytics expertise in developing program to recruit and… Read more »
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BHIRC is participating with the IU Innovation and Commercialization Office (ICO) and the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) in the SBA FAST program
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 »
The BHIRC collaboration submits grant application for the CTSI Trailblazer program.
The BHIRC and DR Schwebach collaborated with DR. Cathy Fulton and the Indiana Primary Care Association to submit a grant application for the CTSI Trailblazer program. This program is designed to provide startup money to begin a new stream of research. The research involves an assessment of prenatal care provided to underserved populations in Indiana… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »