The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has received a $2.6 million Ohio Third Frontier grant for biomedical sensor research and commercialization. The grant is from the revamped Wright Center for Sensor Systems Engineering at Cleveland State University.

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron is among the big winners in a federal defense spending bill that cleared a critical U.S. House subcommittee on Tuesday.If ultimately approved by the full U.S. House and Senate and signed by the president, the measure will bring $5 million in federal money to the [...]

Updated 3:35 p.m.Akron and its Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron are getting a big boost from Ohio.The city has been designated an Ohio Hub of Innovation and Opportunity in biomaterials, bringing with it a grant of $250,000 and support from the Ohio Department of Development to help it become a global leader in the [...]

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has landed three medical innovators to head its centers for medical device development, integrated health care education and community health improvement.The new vice presidents also will lead collaborative efforts across the institute’s operating partners on initiatives that focus on patient-centered innovation and commercialization in biomaterials and medicine. The [...]

BioEnterprise Inc., the bioscienceventure developer in Northeast Ohio, has formalized a partnership with Team NEO to woo new medical imaging, neurostimulation, cardiovascular device and orthopedic companies to the region.Both nonprofits work in Northeast Ohio andsometimes theybump against each otheror duplicateefforts,said Annette Ballou,director of strategic marketing and communications for BioEnterprise. So the two organizationsdeveloped a strategicplan [...]

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has made its first round of research and development grants: $680 million to eight projects ranging from a contact lens embedded with a sensor that measures blood glucose levels to a polymer platform for drug-eluting prosthetic devices.

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has struck a strategic partnership with Cleveland orthopedic device testing and design firm Orthopaedic Research Laboratories to discover, develop and commercialize novel technologies and solutions that advance orthopedic care.

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron plans to award its first six research grants for $100,000 each by mid-February.

NASA’s chief of space medicine visited biomedical engineering students at the University of Akron today, as well as doctors and researchers at Summa Health System in Akron, the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown and the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron to find disruptive medical innovations that can help take care of astronauts.

The University of Akron College of Nursing made “remarkable strides despite daunting and unprecedented economic challenges” last year, Dean N. Margaret Wineman told colleagues, students and friends during her annual address this afternoon. This year, Wineman will ask more from her colleagues and students, including doing more with less state funding.