Purdue ups focus on drug discovery with $250M investment
With these investments, looks like Purdue University is in a unique position to leverage the growing connection between tech and biotech.
With these investments, looks like Purdue University is in a unique position to leverage the growing connection between tech and biotech.
Symic's underlying technology, says CEO Ken Horne, is based on targeting the extracellular matrix to control natural defenses against tissue degradation and inflammation - promoting healing during illness and injury.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
More than 29 million Americans have diabetes and 86 million have prediabetes. Purdue University researchers are focusing on new innovations in treatment.
Given the presence of big pharma like Pfizer in the state, this is a noteworthy investment from the university to bulk up its life sciences reputation. Purdue will also invest separately in precision medicine, pharmacophenomics, biological big data science, and toxicological sciences and engineering.
The Purdue-based collaboration will use a $13 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense spread over five years to launch the Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute.
Tymore Analytical Operations uses protein phosphorylation analysis to understand the mechanisms that cause disease.
MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences. Purdue spinout Neuro Vigor is developing a multiple sclerosis therapeutic that builds on the oxidative stress model of neurological disease: It’s targeting a neurotoxin that is more reactive and toxic than most free radicals, leading […]
MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences. A small sensor that can directly measure the fat levels in arterial walls could help docs better diagnose heart disease. The device, which can be fed through the femoral artery by a cardiologist with a simple […]
MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences. Only 5.8% of the student population is enrolled in the Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences programs at Purdue University, but healthcare startups make up half of the university’s new Startup Class of 2014. Twelve […]
Two Indiana heavyweights announced a partnership that means more funds for life science startups in the Hoosier state. Cook Medical and the Purdue Research Foundation will pair up again to create the Foundry Investment Fund, a $12-million not-for-profit “evergreen investment fund to support Purdue-based life sciences companies,” according to a press release. This isn’t the […]
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Years of research have allowed scientists at Purdue University to manipulate a viral vector, engineering a Sindbis virus to target and kill cancer cells, plus annihilate its native infection preferences, according to a press release. “This virus had been known to be a good vector for delivering therapeutic cargo, however it naturally infected all kinds […]
General Electric (GE) will lend its tech commercialization group to Purdue University innovations as part of a new partnership announced today. Purdue’s medical diagnostic imaging and biological testing technologies are already under consideration for development through the partnership. Historically, GE has hired more Purdue grads than grads from any other university in the world, […]
Google Glass may only be the beginning for Google wearable tech in the healthcare space. Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition startup, for an undisclosed sum. Flutter has developed apps for Mac OS X and Windows that allows users to control computer programs through gestures (without clicking or typing). According to Mashable: Flutter launched […]
When two students working at Purdue University’s Center for Paralysis Research were making small talk around the company water cooler–strike that, cotton candy machine, they didn’t have an inkling that it might lead to business competitions, grants, NSF Small Business Innovation Research funding, a patent and a startup. But that’s exactly how Medtric Biotech began […]
Roche and Eli Lilly are among major life science players in Indiana putting resources behind a public-private research institute that would discover and develop new health innovations. Industry leaders from the drugmakers, along with Biomet, Cook Medical, Dow AgroSciences and Indiana University Health have defined a set of common scientific interests that will be the […]