In the 2015-2016 fiscal year, four faculty members launched startups through the Spin Up program at Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. The entrepreneurs – Sohel Anwar, Kevin Berkopes, Peter Schubert and Brian Sloan – come from IUPUI’s School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI’s School of Science, and the Indiana University School of Medicine. Read… Read more »

Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. officials announced two recent milestones: completing 43 licensing agreements in the 2015-2016 fiscal year and ranking 43rd in the world in patents received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the 2015 calendar year. The 43 licensing agreements represent a 72 percent increase over the 2014-2015 fiscal year… Read more »

Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. ranked #43 among worldwide educational organizations in receiving patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2015. According to the report “Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2015,” IURTC was issued 47 patents. This represents a year-over-year jump of 43 spots, as IURTC ranked 86th,… Read more »

Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. officials have announced 43 licensing agreements were completed in the 2015-2016 fiscal year, a 72 percent increase over the previous year’s total. Marie Kerbeshian, vice president of technology commercialization, said commercializing IU discoveries takes several steps. “Before IURTC technology managers can market the work to companies, Indiana University researchers must… Read more »

IURTC President and CEO Tony Armstrong has written an article for Xconomy.com, which covers business, life sciences and technology news around the nation. Armstrong is one of the Xconomists in Indiana. You can read his article, “3  Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation” here.

Congratulations to Dr. Anantha Shekhar on receiving the first IURTC Outstanding Innovator Award. He was recognized at the June 22 meeting of the IURTC Board of Trustees. Shekhar is the August M. Watanabe Professor of Medical Research and a professor of psychiatry, neurobiology and pharmacology in the Indiana University School of Medicine and co-founder of… Read more »

  Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., which protects, markets and licenses intellectual property developed at Indiana University so it can be commercialized by industry, has licensed cells developed at IU to Applied Biological Materials Inc., a life science company based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The Kupffer cells are mouse liver cells that can… Read more »

Marie Kerbeshian, vice president of technology commercialization at Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., appeared on the latest broadcast of Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick. Marie spoke with Dick about her travels to China and lessons learned about creating relationships with Chinese organizations, companies and investors who want to connect with Indiana-based startups. A… Read more »

Jennifer Finefield and Katherine Moynihan of Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. have scheduled several meetings with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies at 2016 BIO International Conference in San Francisco, June 6-9. Read about their plans to promote technologies discovered and developed by IU researchers here. To request a meeting with Finefield or Moynihan at the… Read more »

The Johnson Center for Innovation and Translational Research has awarded more than $160,000 in grants to seven researchers at Indiana University Bloomington through the Translational Research Pilot Grant program. The researchers are from the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education and School of Informatics and Computing. Launched in 2015, the Translational Research Pilot Grant… Read more »