Pediatric leukemia affects approximately 4,000 children each year in the United States, and the incidence of the disease is steadily increasing year after year. Reuben Kapur, director of the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine, is working to discover new treatments that will improve patient care. He… Read more »
Tag: Innovation
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 »
IU researcher develops innovation to combat increasing mosquito insecticide resistance, mosquito-borne diseases
Mosquito-borne infectious diseases like malaria, which claims half a million lives a year, have been on the rise over the past several years and pose a significant threat to global health. Even with the availability of many viable chemistries, there is a pressing need for new and innovative solutions to address insecticide resistance, mitigate environmental… Read more »
IU researcher engineers data-processing architectures in fibers
To meet the demands of the Internet of Tomorrow, Indiana University researcher and entrepreneur Alexander Gumennik is advancing smart fibers that could lead to improvements in the management of biomedical and biohazardous materials, the monitoring of our environment and the human body, optical treatments and more. Gumennik is interested in collaborating with industry partners to… 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 »
IU researcher uses revolutionary method to develop anticancer therapeutics
When developing anticancer therapeutics, most researchers aim to kill cancerous cells. However, Hiroki Yokota’s approach is to control their growth by knowing how to grow them. Yokota, a professor of biomedical engineering at the School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, an adjunct professor of anatomy, cell biology and physiology at the IU School of… Read more »
IU lecturer making waves in the VR/AR realm
Zeb Wood, a lecturer of media arts and science at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indianapolis, has been one of the leading frontrunners of IU innovation in virtual and augmented reality. Drawing upon a background in 3D animation, Wood has had a string of successes in advancing these prominent… 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 researcher’s drug to slow diabetic retinopathy successfully completes Phase 2 trial
Mark R. Kelley, the Betty and Earl Herr professor of pediatric oncology research at the Indiana University School of Medicine and associate director of basic science at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, is celebrating the positive Phase 2 trial results of a first-of-its-kind drug he developed to slow the progression of… Read more »