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 »

Two dozen town and city administrators from nine Lake County towns were introduced last week to a new economic development tool that uses geographic information systems (GIS) to help businesses and city leaders make better strategic decisions. The Aug. 22 seminar at IU Northwest’s Gary campus — conducted by IU Northwest School of Business and… Read more »

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 »

The cutting-edge research being performed by IU Spin Up company Anagin LLC to develop a novel, non-debilitative treatment of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) is the subject of a new promotional video produced by Indiana University. The two-minute spot briefly explains Anagin’s mission, as well as what the Spin Up program does for promising companies whose… Read more »

                    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 »

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s approval of an engineering program at Indiana University Bloomington paves the way for degree tracks to be offered starting next fall. Starting with the 2016-17 academic year, the program — to be housed at IUB’s School of Informatics and Computing — will offer degrees in intelligent systems engineering. Initially… Read more »

A $25,000 grant from Innovate Indiana will help Kokomo’s Inventrek Technology Park launch Howard County’s first “co-worker” space. The 3,000-square-foot allotment will offer members access at any time to work and meeting space, desk and lounge areas, conference rooms and fiber and WiFi connections. It also will have copy/print/scan capabilities, secure storage, a CAD lab,… Read more »

B-Start, a pre-accelerator program for early stage student technology startups recently launched by the Bloomington Economic Development Corp., is now accepting applications. Supported in part by Innovate Indiana, it involves a four-week program in which six to 10 startup businesses are selected for mentorship and coaching sessions, consultations, informational programs and a pitch day in… Read more »

Five teams working on innovative research in medicine, aviation and industrial applications recently received funding from the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis’ Signature Centers Initiative, which is now in its eighth year. Two of the teams received Category A (three-year) funding: Center for Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research, Xiao-Ming Xu, director, IU School of… Read more »

                      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 »