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 »

Angst among Hoosier manufacturers is on the rise, with corporate taxes, environmental regulations and a shortage of skilled workers leading their collective list. Such were the findings of Katz, Sapper & Miller’s annual manufacturing survey released earlier this week, which was conducted in collaboration with IU’s Kelley School of Business. Once more, Indiana’s “skills gap”… Read more »

Through a licensing agreement with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology will incorporate SparksX — a molecular modeling-and-design software package developed by Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing researchers — into its product pipeline. Based on numerous scientific assessments, SparksX offers scientists a “uniquely powerful tool” to recognize protein folds… Read more »

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 »

One recent event certain to catalyze the innovators and entrepreneurs of tomorrow at IU Bloomington was the Oct. 2 groundbreaking for Luddy Hall, the $39.8 million, 124,000-square-foot new home for IU’s School of Informatics and Computing. Slated for completion in December 2017, private donations will fund at least one-fourth of the cost — including $8… Read more »

During the 2015 fiscal year, Indiana University set a school record with 183 U.S. and foreign patents issued. In terms of economic development, startup businesses based on IU-licensed technologies generated an estimated $100 million, while IU grossed more than $6.8 million in royalty income. Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. President and CEO Tony Armstrong,… Read more »

Anagin LLC, part of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp.’s Spin Up program, will present its novel method for treating post-traumatic stress disorder without triggering harmful side effects at CATTEC VIII, an investment forum for promising Midwest startups being held Thursday, Oct. 15 in Chicago. Organized by the Midwest Research University Network, CATTEC —… Read more »

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 »

The ongoing dialogue in Indiana to reduce a widening gap between the demand for technically skilled workers and the number produced by Indiana colleges and universities is the topic of an IU-led panel discussion at the University Economic Development Association’s annual summit to be held Sept. 27-30 in Anchorage, Alaska. Innovate Indiana’s Rebecca Carl, associate… Read more »

            A trio of Indiana University officials played integral roles in a recently established framework that defines the roles that colleges and universities play in modern economic development and the methods they can use to better pursue that mission. The two-year project — taken on by the University Economic Development… Read more »