Half of the six finalists for this year’s BioCrossroads New Venture Competition announced Monday have ties to Indiana University. The contest, now in its fourth year, recognizes some of Indiana’s best up-and-coming life sciences companies and has awarded more than $180,000 to a dozen startups since its 2012 inception. Finalists linked to IU include: Arrhythmotech:… Read more »
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Sixth-annual Watanbe Symposium in Chemical Biology scheduled for Saturday at Simon Hall
One of Simon Hall’s headline events for the year, the Sixth Annual Watanabe Symposium in Chemical Biology hosted by IU Bloomington’s Department of Chemistry, is set for Saturday, Oct. 10, from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in Chemistry 122. The symposium honors the late August “Gus” Watanabe, who led research and development at Eli Lilly… Read more »
IUSM scientists reap record $302.3 million in research grants and awards during FY 2015
Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine set a school record for the amount of research awards and grants received during the 2015 fiscal year. In all, $302.3 million worth of awards were received — a 17 percent increase over the 2014 fiscal year — with $111.5 million coming from the National Institutes of… Read more »
Human clinical trials conducted by Indiana University, Mayo Clinic researchers may stop polycystic kidney disease square in its tracks
Polycystic kidney disease is a debilitating and painful disease, one that stems from a gene mutation and as yet, has no cure or even an effective therapy aside from an organ transplant. Over time, it can cause a kidney — normally the size of one’s fist — to grow as large as a football in… Read more »
Grand Challenges initiative urges IU faculty across all disciplines, campuses to "go big" and attack world's most pressing problems
For those who haven’t heard by now — or were otherwise besieged by early-semester tasks — Indiana University just launched the most ambitious research program in its history. Through a $300 million investment over the next five years, IU’s Grand Challenges program aims to address some of the world’s most pressing issues — such as… Read more »
IU researchers' efforts to combat polycystic kidney disease not limited to the laboratory
At 8 a.m. Saturday (Sept. 19) at IUPUI’s Michael A. Carroll Soccer and Track Stadium on the IUPUI campus, hundreds of Hoosiers with a common cause — the eventual defeat of polycystic kidney disease — will begin gathering for a fundraising walk (with a 1-mile and 3-mile route) that starts at 9 a.m. Among them… Read more »
Auricyte's 'ear-in-a-dish' technology among Best in Show at Innovation Showcase 2015
Spin Up company Auricyte LLC, which looks to cure hearing loss by transforming human stem cells into functioning hearing cells, is one of five companies that will be recognized Thursday as being among the Best in Show at the recent Innovation Showcase 2015 held in Speedway. The company was co-founded in 2014 by IU School… Read more »
EmotEd's Neumann among top researchers at brain trauma conference in Washington D.C.
The founder of Spin Up company EmotEd LLC, which seeks a novel approach in treating emotional disorders linked to traumatic brain injuries (TBI), joined a host of presenters earlier this week in Washington, D.C., at a conference held by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Research and Development. Dawn Neumann was among more than… Read more »
Anagin, EmotEd present strategies to treat PTSD, alexithymia at military research forum
Key researchers behind two rising Spin Up companies, EmotEd’s Dawn Neumann and Anagin’s Anantha Shekhar, presented their novel methods of treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alexithymia this week at the 2015 Military Health System Research Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The event is described… Read more »
Simon Atkinson, Anantha Shekhar appointed to research leadership posts at IUPUI, IUSM
A pair of announcements recently were made concerning key research positions at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and the IU School of Medicine. Effective Aug. 16, Simon Atkinson will serve as interim vice chancellor for research at IUPUI while a nationwide search takes place… Read more »