At an April ceremony in Bloomington, Subir Bandyopadhyay, a member of Indiana University’s Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development (CREED) and professor of marketing at IU Northwest in Gary, received IU’s oldest honor for teaching — the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award. Bandyopadhyay was one of 16 faculty members and three graduate students who… Read more »

The Innovate Indiana Fund and GE Ventures were among investors who recently contributed $5.75 million in seed funds to San Francisco-based MatterFab, which aims to use the money to develop an affordable metal 3-D printer. As commercial demand increases for 3-D printers, the traditional price for such a device is often in excess of $1… Read more »

A pair of notable news items have emerged concerning the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute (IBRI), a non-profit, industry-led effort whose stakeholders include key companies such as Biomet, Cook Medical, Dow AgroSciences, Eli Lilly & Co., Indiana University Health and Roche Diagnostics — along with the State of Indiana, BioCrossroads and university collaborators such as Indiana,… Read more »

A team of researchers from the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research led by IU Bloomington assistant professor Yong-Youl “Y.Y.” Ahn was recently named as one of 11 winners of the LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge. Along with a $25,000 prize, the team traveled to LinkedIn’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., for a tour and… Read more »

Under an agreement with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. obtained an exclusive option to acquire intellectual property rights to “next-generation” offshoots of gentamicin. Gentamicin is part of a class of hospital-grade antibiotics known as aminoglycosides that are commonly used to treat staph, urinary tract, heart and pregnancy-related infections. Despite… Read more »

Monday, June 1 is the entry deadline for the fifth annual Indiana Innovation Awards. Presented by Centric, the awards seek to recognize people and organizations who are leading the charge toward making the Hoosier State a more innovative place. To be eligible for the awards, a product, service or company must have been introduced within… Read more »

“Writing/Designing Winning NIH Proposals,” a workshop to help participants better understand procedures for writing and submitting research funding proposals for the National Institutes for Health is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 27, at the IUPUI Campus Center. Areas covered will include navigating the NIH website, improving proposal-writing skills and the… Read more »

Researchers with an interest in regenerative medicine are invited to attend a two-day symposium May 19-20 titled “Regulatory Pathways for Regenerative Medicine: Cell and Biological Therapeutics.” The event will take place at The Athenaeum at 401 E. Michigan St. in Indianapolis. Didactic sessions, as well as abstract and poster sessions will run from 8:30 a.m…. Read more »

PrecisionHawk, an IU-funded venture that deploys unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect and analyze data for various commercial users, announced it has entered an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to advance research concerning the use of UAVs in rural areas. The partnership falls under the Pathfinder program established by the FAA to help safely… Read more »

The Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics at IU’s South Bend campus now hosts offices for the Indiana Small Business Development Center’s North Central region. The partnership is the first that involves IU serving as a host for ISBDC, which offers entrepreneurs expert guidance and a comprehensive network of resources for little to no… Read more »