One of Spin Up director Joe Trebley’s goals in helping young companies get off the ground is identifying its “last founder” — an experienced leader with a history of raising capital and managing startups who can take the company to the next level. Eric J. Messner is just such an executive, having played key roles… Read more »
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Law professor, privacy/security expert Fred H. Cate named IU's vice president for research
Indiana University’s top research post will soon have a new leader as Fred H. Cate, an IU Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, has been named vice president for research. Cate, one of the world’s leading experts on privacy and security issues, will serve a two-year term and replaces Jorge José, who… Read more »
IURTC Spin Up companies, along with startups supported by the Innovate Indiana Fund, show their stuff at Innovation Showcase 2015
About a half-dozen companies with Indiana University ties took advantage of the opportunities afforded by the state’s largest exposition for startups — Innovation Showcase 2015 — which was held July 9 at Speedway’s Dallara IndyCar Factory and was sponsored in part by Innovate Indiana. As company representatives spent the day meeting with potential investors, making… Read more »
IU study finds that academia, compared to other sectors, has generated largest increase in women-filed patents since the mid-1970s
A recently published study by an Indiana University scholar found that since 1976, the number of women who have filed patents with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office has risen faster within academia as opposed to other economic sectors such as industry, government and individual inventors. The analysis, led by associate professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto… Read more »
Under new job title, IURTC tech manager aims to boost entrepreneurship at IU Bloomington
Along with his duties as a technology manager with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., Wes Pennington recently added Discovery Scientist to his title — a nod toward increased efforts to encourage and assist more startup business activity among researchers and innovators at the IU Bloomington campus. Enabled through the Lilly Endowment, Pennington’s new… Read more »
Startups from Spin Up program, Innovate Indiana Fund among 74 companies on exhibit July 9 during Innovation Showcase 2015
The year’s largest expo for Indiana startups — Innovation Showcase 2015 — is set for Thursday, July 9, at Speedway’s Dallara IndyCar Factory and has 74 companies lined up. At least a half-dozen have substantial ties to Indiana University, with five being products of the Spin Up program offered by the Indiana University Research and… Read more »
Translational research and entrepreneurship seminar set for July 14 at IUPUI to feature founder/director of Stanford's SPARK program
Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen, who founded and directs Stanford University’s SPARK translational research and commercialization program, will discuss “Translational Research in Academia – Correcting Abnormal Mitochondrial Dynamics in Neurodegenerative Diseases” at a Tuesday, July 14, seminar at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. The seminar is scheduled for 11 a.m. to noon in Room 1110 of the Health… Read more »
Applications for IUSM's biennial Watanabe Prize for Translational Research due June 15
Every two years, the IU School of Medicine selects two Watanabe Translational Scholars, whose efforts are focused on translational research. Named after the late August M. Watanabe, an IUSM alumnus whose career spanned academia and the pharmaceutical and life science industries, the two-year award includes $5,000 for travel and mentor meetings with Dr. Carl June,… Read more »
Innovate Indiana to appear at world's largest biotech event June 15-18 in Philadelphia
For the fourth year, the Indiana Health Industry Forum (IHIF) — a statewide association that represents members of Indiana’s health science community — will have a presence at the BIO International Convention, which is scheduled for June 15-18 in Philadelphia, Pa. The BIO International Convention touts itself as… Read more »
Indiana CTSI launches new initiatives, grows project development team with $5 million from Indiana Economic Development Corp.
Five million dollars awarded to the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) by the Indiana Economic Development Corp. will be used to launch a molecular therapeutics program, a program that connects industry mentors to entrepreneur researchers and create an academic research commercialization hub for Indiana. Some of the money also will be used to… Read more »