Entrepreneurs who have licensed a patent-pending innovation developed by an engineering professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis say their startup can help people who install solar panels. Lee Saberson, manager of business development at Delta Microinverter LLC, said installing contractors usually decide which solar photovoltaic system components to buy for clients. This includes the inverters,… Read more »
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National Kidney Month: biologist develops treatments for polycystic kidney disease
A biologist in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is developing treatments for polycystic kidney disease, which affects between one in 400 and one in 1,000 people worldwide. Bonnie Blazer-Yost, professor of biology, said the disease equally affects people across gender, race and ethnicity. It can dramatically change the kidneys’ appearance and… Read more »
IU startup Anagin LLC receives federal funding to test treatment for traumatic brain injury
A startup that is commercializing Indiana University technology has received funding from an institute within the National Institutes of Health to test a treatment for traumatic brain injury. Anagin LLC has received a one-year SBIR Phase I grant worth $267,381 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The grant will help the company… Read more »
Newly launched Faros Healthcare licenses technology from IURTC to create advanced predictive analytics for health care providers
Faros Healthcare LLC, a spin-out of Centerstone Research Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving behavioral health care through research and information technology, is bringing patent-pending artificial intelligence technology and software to health care providers through an exclusive license from Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. “Faros provides a cloud-based platform that integrates with existing… Read more »
IU Bloomington faculty invited to apply by April 1 for translational research grants
Faculty members across all academic disciplines at IU Bloomington have through April 1 to apply for funding from the Translational Research Pilot Grants program administered by the Johnson Center for Innovation and Translational Research. The program funds the completion of proof of concept projects that support the development of research projects with industry partners, lead to the… Read more »
IU students build high-tech startups from their own IP, receive early support from university
High-tech entrepreneurs who create intellectual property as graduate or undergraduate students in the Indiana University campus system are impacting the state’s economic development by launching businesses, creating jobs and providing solutions to clients across several sectors. Tony Armstrong, president and CEO of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., said the trend of IU students commercializing… Read more »
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research sets deadline for IUPUI faculty to apply for FORCES funding to develop, commercialize technology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis faculty can submit funding proposals through March 15 to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to support the development and commercialization of their technology. Since 2011, more than 30 faculty members have received over $940,000 through two categories of the FORCES (Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success) initiative…. Read more »
IU School of Medicine researcher awarded NIH IGNITE grant to develop drug candidate
Dr. Elliot J. Androphy, the Kampen-Norins Professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been awarded an IGNITE, or Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts, grant by the National Institutes of Health. The grant will last three years, contingent upon achieving a set of predetermined milestones…. Read more »
Life sciences company licenses IU School of Medicine enzyme-production technology
Pharmaceutical companies that need to test how well drug candidates inhibit glycogen synthase can now purchase technology developed at the Indiana University School of Medicine that produces the difficult-to-make enzyme in larger quantities, more quickly and in a purer form than traditional methods were able to achieve. Thomas Hurley, Chancellor’s Professor and interim chair of… Read more »
Recognizing some of the top inventors at IU Bloomington on National Inventors Day
National Inventors Day is celebrated annually Feb. 11, which also is Thomas Edison’s birthday. Here is a list of some of the inventors who make Bloomington one of the most innovate campuses in the nation. Carolyn G. Begley, School of Optometry L. Jean Camp, Department of Computer Science and Informatics, School of Informatics and… Read more »