By Teri Willey, executive director, IU Ventures and fund manager, Indiana Philanthropic Venture Fund I am pleased to report that in Q2 2019, we have added two more companies to our portfolio. MBX Biosciences is a therapeutics company founded by serial entrepreneurs Kent Hawryluk, who received the 2018 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of… Read more »
Technology Commercialization
Interns Amick, Ma gain real-world experience in patent law, protecting IU intellectual property
Work conducted by Indiana University students Thomas Amick and Ziyu Ma to create and hone patent applications will impact lives around the world. Amick, from Greenfield, Indiana, is a third-year student in the IU McKinney School of Law. Ma, from Jiangsu, China, is a second-year student in the IU Maurer School of Law. They are… Read more »
Lakshmi Sastry-Dent joins IU ICO, will manage mostly IUPUI, IU School of Medicine technologies
The Indiana University Innovation and Commercialization Office, which protects, markets and licenses intellectual property developed at IU so it can be commercialized by industry, has hired Lakshmi Sastry-Dent as senior technology commercialization manager. Bill Brizzard, executive director, said Sastry-Dent will strengthen IU ICO’s abilities to work with university inventors. “Lakshmi has a strong technical background… Read more »
Tyson Rugenstein joins IU ICO, will manage portfolio of life sciences inventions
The Indiana University Innovation and Commercialization Office, which protects, markets and licenses intellectual property developed at IU so it can be commercialized by industry, has hired Tyson Rugenstein as senior technology commercialization manager. Bill Brizzard, executive director, said Rugenstein strengthens the roster of the IU Innovation and Commercialization Office. “Tyson’s extensive experience in business development… Read more »
Birch Bayh and his impact on technology transfer at American universities
By Bill Brizzard, executive director, Indiana University Innovation and Commercialization Office Indiana University mourns the passing of former U.S. senator and IU alumnus Birch Bayh. Among Sen. Bayh’s many achievements was his co-sponsorship of the Bayh-Dole Act with Sen. Bob Dole. Enacted in 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act allows universities, nonprofits and small businesses to elect… Read more »
Article highlights chemistry partnership between IU, Purdue and Notre Dame
By Kevin Fryling, news and media specialist, science, Indiana University Communications A longstanding partnership between Indiana’s three top research universities recently got some high-profile exposure in the world of pharmaceutical chemistry through a story in PharmTech, a leading news source for professionals in the global pharmaceutical manufacturing drug-development community. The story, “Precompetitive Research Spurs Innovation… Read more »
New Engineering and Technology program at IUPUI emphasizes innovation, entrepreneurship
Intellectual property is playing a central role in a new program at the School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. In the Engineering-Science Intellectual Property Project, a series of three classes marries intellectual property concepts with engineering and patent applications. Students create their own solution to an engineering challenge, build a prototype, and then guide… Read more »
Tony Armstrong of IURTC to speak on university startups panel in Houston
Tony Armstrong, president and CEO of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., will participate in a panel at the second annual Venture Houston, taking place Nov. 8-9. The event will be hosted by Global Corporate Venturing and Global University Venturing. The “Best Practices to Create and Fund Startups from Universities and Public Research Labs… Read more »
Indiana University’s technology transfer process featured on ‘Inside Indiana Business’
Fred H. Cate, Indiana University vice president for research, spoke about the university’s technology transfer process with Gerry Dick on “Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick.” Cate provided an overview of the technology transfer process and spoke about the record three-year period of activity for the IU Innovation and Commercialization Office. Other highlights were a… Read more »
IU Vice President for Research Fred H. Cate to appear on ‘Inside Indiana Business’
Fred H. Cate, vice president for research at Indiana University, will appear on the next “Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick.” He will speak with Dick about technology transfer — vetting, applying for protection for, marketing and licensing intellectual property — at IU. WFYI, the PBS television station in Indianapolis, will broadcast the interview at… Read more »