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 »
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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 »
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 »
NBA startup pitch competition will be IU star-studded show
UPDATE: All of the semi-finalists, including the three Indiana University-affiliated founders spotlighted below, advanced to compete in the All-Star Pitch Competition Finals. The event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Indiana Convention Center from 10 a.m. to noon as part of the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend. Watch the semi-final competition on the… Read more »
IU innovations receive five patents
Five Indiana University researchers have received patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for cutting-edge methods and technologies developed at IU. Their innovations include a treatment for bacterial infections, and methods for neural audio coding, audio signal encoding and decoding, correcting errors in depth estimation models, and collecting and detecting chemical evidence from surfaces…. Read more »