December 8, 2010 11:24 am by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments
The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron and the University of Akron are planning to launch in January a semester-long educational program aimed at women entrepreneurs. The program will provide participants ...
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September 23, 2010 4:27 pm by Brandon Glenn | 0 Comments
The University of Akron Research Foundation and the Austen BioInnovation Institute were awarded $1 million as winners of a federal competition designed to reward regional collaboration on innovation. ...
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An assistant professor of biomedical engineering and an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Akron have been awarded nearly $1 million in Faculty Early Career ...
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AKRON — For the past decade, Dr. Judit E. Puskas,professor of polymer science at The University of Akron, has worked to develop a new and innovative breast prosthesis safer for ...
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February 19, 2010 4:19 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments
Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut donned their high-tech marketing hats Friday, touting the state's leadership in biomedical and health care innovation by announcing centers ...
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February 17, 2010 1:00 pm by Mary Vanac | 2 Comments
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 ...
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February 15, 2010 5:54 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments
Northeast Ohio's technology economic development organization, NorTech, has chosen three bioscience products to receive its 2010 Innovation Awards. ...
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December 10, 2009 8:22 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments
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 ...
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September 14, 2009 9:07 am by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments
On its first anniversary, the BioInnovation Institute in Akron added "Austen" to its name, recognizing internationally renown heart surgeon and retiring Knight Foundation Chairman Dr. W. Gerald Austen and his ...
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August 27, 2009 11:32 am by Mary Vanac | 3 Comments
Ohio's public universities could transfer more of their research discoveries to companies that can take them to market -- creating new products and jobs -- under an amendment that was ...
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August 3, 2009 1:46 pm by Chris Seper | 1 Comments
Margaret Wineman, dean at the College of Nursing at the University of Akron, wants a greater role for nurses in medical homes, primary care, wellness and fighting the H1N1 flu. ...
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April 23, 2009 11:03 am by Sarah Latson | 7 Comments
If all goes well, the two schools could offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice by 2010. Eighty schools already offer the DNP, which the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. ...
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February 16, 2009 4:28 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments
Seven out of 10 Innovation Awards to be given Wednesday evening by NorTech and Crain's Cleveland Business will go to companies or institutions that have developed products for the biomedical ...
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January 28, 2009 1:34 pm by Mary Vanac | 0 Comments
Technology transfer -- moving research out of institutions and into companies that can develop and market products with it -- was a healthy enterprise nationwide in fiscal 2007. Northeast Ohio ...
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