Just how much is Indiana University driving Indiana’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship? Look no further than the list of nominees for the 2025 Mira Awards, honoring the best of tech in Indiana. TechPoint, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership’s industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, recently announced more than a dozen IU-affiliated tech leaders… Read more »
IU celebrates opening of The Forge, Bloomington’s new tech center
Indiana University helped lead an all-out celebration “blitz” on Friday, Nov. 22, at the grand opening of The Forge, Bloomington’s new $13 million sustainable technology center in the city’s downtown Trades District. Even though IU’s football team suffered its first defeat the following day, Bloomington is still buzzing with excitement over two of its biggest… Read more »
IU microelectronics innovation to help fuel formation of new $285M national semiconductor institute
Indiana University will play a key role in the formation of a first-of-its-kind national institute targeting the next frontier of technological innovation in the microelectronics industry. IU is a member of the team that was selected this week by the National Institute for Standards and Technology to launch the new Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research… Read more »
IU researcher attends White House event on saving lives from opioid overdose
After participating in a special event at the White House this week, Indiana University researcher Cris Henderson is confident that IU’s leadership in helping to prevent opioid overdoses is moving Indiana and the nation in the right direction. Henderson is a research associate for Prevention Insights and a doctoral student at the IU School of… Read more »
IU faculty startup MBX Biosciences announces $163.2 million U.S. IPO
MBX Biosciences, an Indiana University faculty-created startup that develops peptide therapies for the treatment of endocrine and metabolic diseases, raised $163.2 million in its U.S. initial public offering. The company’s peptides are based on chemistry developed by a research team led by Richard DiMarchi, scientific cofounder of MBX Biosciences and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in… Read more »
IU investments help accelerate development of southern Indiana’s microelectronics sector
Indiana University’s leadership and major investments in microelectronics research and workforce development continue to contribute to significant regional momentum around the semiconductor industry. Last week, Bloomington-based Regional Opportunity Initiatives announced it has received a three-year, nearly $9.6 million contract from the Department of Defense for a multilayered initiative to advance microelectronics education and workforce training… Read more »
Armstrong joins advisory board of NSF’s Industries of Ideas project
Tony Armstrong, Indiana University associate vice president and president and CEO of IU Ventures, has been appointed to the advisory board of Industries of Ideas, a recently launched pilot project of the National Science Foundation to assess the impact of the agency’s strategic investments in research on the development of regional economies and emerging technology… Read more »
Mira Award nominees signal growing success of IU’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem
Indiana University is once again primed to seize the spotlight during Indiana’s “biggest night for innovation.” Several IU-affiliated entrepreneurs and companies are among the nominees, announced earlier this week by Indianapolis-based TechPoint, for the 2024 Mira Awards, honoring the best of tech in the Hoosier state. They’ll vie for several of TechPoint’s biggest honors while… Read more »
Patents awarded to six IU innovations
Six Indiana University-led technologies and methods have recently received patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These innovations include an antiviral drug treatment for HPV, as well as methods for activating T cells in vitro, processing speech, enhancing the study of the gut microbial ecosystem, analyzing lipoproteins through the use of mass spectrometry and… Read more »
IU researcher pioneers new class of antibiotics to treat infectious diseases
An Indiana University researcher is pioneering an innovative approach to develop new antibiotics that could help address the growing problem of bacterial antimicrobial resistance, which is when bacteria and viruses no longer respond to antibiotic medicines. Recent estimates indicate that each year there are 5 million infections globally associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance, with 1.3… Read more »