A new recognition program from an initiative to advance life sciences in Indiana has honored six researchers, faculty members or other individuals affiliated with Indiana University as the “next generation of life sciences leaders.” The individuals are the inaugural recipients of BioCrossroads’s 23 PAIR, or Promising Achievers in Innovation and Research, Awards. Each recipient was… Read more »
IU Innovation and Commercialization Office
Creating opportunities to build connections and the next Hoosier success stories
Note: Sodam Kim, assistant director of research communications for the IU Office of the Vice President for Research, contributed to this story. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Indiana University has accelerated efforts to build connections among its global community of entrepreneurs, innovators and investors, while also advancing business ideas with the potential to create new high-quality… Read more »
Assembly Biosciences and Door Pharmaceuticals sign collaboration and option agreement
Assembly Biosciences Inc. (Nasdaq: ASMB) and Door Pharmaceuticals LLC have announced that the companies have signed an exclusive, two-year collaboration and option agreement focused on the development of a novel class of hepatitis B virus core protein modulators. Door Pharmaceuticals’ innovative discovery platform targets functions of core protein that are distinct from viral assembly and… Read more »
Esteemed panelists to discuss IU’s support of innovation, commercialization Oct. 29
Innovative researchers and entrepreneurs with Indiana University connections will speak Oct. 29 about factors critical to their success and how the university can support faculty and students with interests in innovation and commercialization. The panel will include Richard DiMarchi and Jack Gill, who will receive the first-ever Wylie Innovation Catalyst Medals in a presentation preceding… Read more »
IU ICO reports on 2019-20 fiscal year milestones
The 2019-20 fiscal year was a strong one for the Indiana University Innovation and Commercialization Office, said Simran Trana, IU associate vice president of innovation and commercialization. “This was an unusual year, and not only because of the impact of the novel coronavirus,” Trana said. “IU researchers quickly pivoted their work to create new methods… Read more »
These 64 IU researchers were named on issued patents in 2019-20
The Indiana University Innovation and Commercialization Office again reported a strong year in technology transfer activity. It received 157 patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent organizations during the 2019-20 fiscal year. Sixty-four current IU researchers were named on the patents. They are: IU Bloomington Andrew Alexander Lane Baker Yves Brun… Read more »
Another example of IU expertise at innovation and commercialization
By Samantha Ginther, senior associate, IU Ventures Everyone at the Indiana University Innovation and Commercialization Office and IU Ventures congratulates drug discovery company MBX Biosciences for recently completing a $34.6 million Series A round of funding. This is the latest entrepreneurial good news for Indiana University researcher and Distinguished Professor Richard DiMarchi, IUPUI alumnus Kent… Read more »
Q&A with Nancy T. Chang, Ph.D., plenary speaker for the fifth annual Innovation and Commercialization Conference
Nancy T. Chang, Ph.D., founded Tanox, a biopharmaceutical company, in 1986 while on faculty at the Baylor College of Medicine. The company developed Xolair, an anti-inflammatory asthma treatment, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for use in 2003. Tanox was acquired by Genentech in 2007 for $919 million. Chang will speak during the… Read more »
5th annual Innovation and Commercialization Conference goes virtual
The Indiana University Office of Innovation and Commercialization will host the fifth annual Innovation and Commercialization Conference on Sept. 17 and 18 on Zoom. It is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of the Vice President for Government Relations and Economic Engagement, the Office of Business Partnerships, and the… Read more »
IU ICO Perspectives: a process to closely align with faculty
By Simran Trana, associate vice president, IU Innovation and Commercialization Office Over the six months that I have been at Indiana University, IU ICO has been reviewing its processes, practices and development programs that will align us more closely with faculty and what they need in terms of commercializing their intellectual property. Our commercialization managers… Read more »