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Miss Iowa teams with UI Hygienic Laboratory as ambassador The University Hygienic Laboratory announced today, Wednesday, Nov. 11, that Miss Iowa 2009 Anne Michael Langguth will serve as its Environmental and Public Health Laboratory Ambassador to bring awareness to a looming workforce shortage in the public health sector. more...  Technology Association of Iowa Honors Women of Innovation The Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) yesterday honored leaders in technology, science, and engineering at its second annual Iowa Women of Innovation Awards presentation. Nine professionals, academicians, and students were awarded with “Women of Innovation” awards. “These women are advancing technology in Iowa,” said TAI president Leann Jacobson. “Their work makes our state a better place to live – more economically vibrant, more environmentally sound and more of an incubator of idea generation and innovation. As role models their work will bring many more women into Iowa’s high-tech workforce.” more... Company improves prescription drugs A local company is working to improve pharmaceuticals by making existing drugs better and safer for the patients who need them. KemPharm Inc. is an early phase private biopharmaceutical company in North Liberty and in the University of Iowa BioVentures Center. more... KemPharm, Inc. Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Trial of KP106 for ADHD North Liberty, IA -- October 22, 2009 – KemPharm, Inc. today announced that it has commenced a Phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers of its novel prodrug compound, KP106, which is in development for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). KP106, a new chemical entity (NCE) composed of d-amphetamine and a ligand, is the lead investigational candidate from KemPharm’s proprietary ligand activated therapy (LAT) platform, which creates improved versions of FDA-approved drugs. KemPharm began the KP106 program in 2007 and has initiated the Phase 1 clinical trial of this candidate in less than 24 months. more... UI student business wins $50,000 federal grant to develop biomass for energy A University of Iowa-based student business has received a $50,000 federal grant to help develop a system of helping farmers transport biomass to utilities, large industries and biofuel companies for conversion to electricity. more... UI Pharmaceuticals passes FDA inspection In September 2009, the Kansas City District Office of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitted a recommendation of approval to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research for The University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals (UIP) to manufacture and test an aseptically filled, sterile prescription drug product for a commercial client. The drug product contains a new chemical entity and is a sterile solution that is aseptically filled into vials. more... ACT marks 50th anniversary of founding at Old Capitol on UI campus Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, University of Iowa President Sally Mason, area business leaders and representatives of the university and ACT joined ACT CEO and Board Chairman Richard Ferguson on Friday, Aug. 21, to commemorate ACT's 50th anniversary. The American College Testing program, now ACT, Inc., was founded in a meeting at the Old Capitol on the University of Iowa campus on Aug. 21, 1959. more... UI ranked 29th best U.S. public national university University of Iowa is the 29th best public national university in the country, according to the latest rankings published by the magazine U.S.News & World Report. The ranking places the UI in a tie with Indiana University-Bloomington, Michigan State University, University of California-Santa Cruz and Virginia Tech University. more... Businesses growing in Iowa from Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute The Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute convenes for the fourth time next week, and the program's alumni have already started several businesses around the state. more... UI sets own record with $429.5M in grants (Chicago Tribune, July 29) Officials at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA say the school set an all-time record of $429.5 million in grant funding in the fiscal year that ended June 30. University representatives say grants in fiscal 2009 were up by 10.3 percent from the previous year. The increase includes $5 million in national stimulus funding. The Associated Press carried the story, which also appeared on KMTV in Omaha, Neb. more... UI external support increases 10.3 percent to record $429.5 million Despite the historic flood, which displaced and interrupted many research programs last summer, University of Iowa faculty generated impressive growth in extramural support in fiscal year 2009. Total external funding achieved yet another all-time record of $429.5 million, which represents an impressive 10.3 percent increase over 2008 and continues a trend that has seen consistent increases over the past 23 years. more... High tech aids drivers Technology devices such as iPods and cell phones have normally been thought of as dangerous distractions for those behind the wheel. But now UI experts are looking into ways technology can be used to avoid accidents on the road. more... UI development consortium develops drugs, dosages for clinical studies Nanoparticles deliver life-saving drugs to the body, tablets go down easily with a film coating, and a nasal spray delivers vaccines. Behind each product is the work of a member from the University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals Development Consortium. Pharmaceutics faculty members in the UI College of Pharmacy -- Dale Eric Wurster, Doug Flanagan and Lee Kirsch -- developed the consortium concept a few years ago. With the approval of Donald Letendre, college dean, and Maureen Donovan, interim head of the Division of Pharmaceutics, they established the consortium in January, formalizing the relationship between pharmaceutics faculty and UI Pharmaceuticals in the UI College of Pharmacy. more... Software Startup Launches iPhone Application The iPhone has a new app. That's nothing new; applications are added daily to the iPhone app store. One aded last week was created in the Corridor by a start-up software company. There are more than 25,000 applications available for the iPhone, many of which are games and bug-ridden. As of last week, there were 2,100 educational applications available, many offering study guides for math, classic literature and learning foreign languages. more... Stop or go? Alzheimer's creates driving dilemma University of Iowa scientists are creating tests to show when it's time for people with early Alzheimer's disease to stop driving. more... UI Research Registry Tops 1,100 Volunteers! Seniors Together in Aging Research (STAR), a registry of Iowans over age 50 living within a two hour drive of UI, has over 1,100 volunteers interested in participating in UI IRB-approved research studies. The STAR Registry contains secure, detailed information on each volunteer's medical history, behavioral, and demographic data. The STAR database can be searched to create a list of potential volunteers targeted to meet your study's inclusion/exclusion criteria. more... Iowa City, Two Other Iowa Metropolitan Areas Among Fastest Growing In The Nation Three Iowa metropolitan areas were among the nation's 100 fastest growing metros between 2007 and 2008, according to population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. more... Pohaku marketing firm is newest tenant at UI Technology Innovation Center Pohaku Inc., a marketing services firm, has located an office at the Technology Innovation Center business incubator in the University of Iowa Research Park. Pohaku uses its technological expertise to help clients increase sales and increase savings through effective solutions in event strategy, relationship marketing, and Web applications. more... Family hopes to help fight rare diseases A local nonprofit research institute is helping one family, and possibly many others, in finding solutions for very rare diseases. Peyton Hadley, 11, and his sister, Kayla, 8, have both been diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Type C, a disease so rare there are only about 500 known cases in the world, said their father, Bryan Hadley. Their younger brother, Jonah, does not have the disease and also is not a carrier. more... UI Driving Study Examining Alcohol Impairment The National Advanced Driving Simulator at The University of Iowa Oakdale Campus is inviting adults to participate in a driving simulation study to determine how various levels of blood alcohol concentration impacts driving performance. more... Hygienic lab, a University of Iowa Research Park Magnet Lab, is first state public health lab to add new pregnancy screens The Iowa Maternal Screening Program now provides women across the state access to the most advanced and safest methods to screen for Down syndrome and open neural tube defects with the recent addition of the Iowa Maternal Integrated Screen to the tests performed at the University Hygienic Laboratory. more... Iowa student engineers develop hand-held water sanitizer for a thirsty world A presentation by UI faculty member Craig Just on Feb. 14 at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago featured the work of 15 College of Engineering students who won a 2008 U.S. EPA award for their project to design a $5, hand-held device to sanitize water in developing countries. more... Santos Human Inc. Receives $150K award from IDED February 6, 2009 (Des Moines, Iowa) – A dozen awards to commercialize new products, develop the future workforce and improve entrepreneur networking were approved at the January meeting of the Economic Development Board. The Board accepted recommendations from the review committee of the Innovation and Commercialization Division, Iowa Department of Economic Development, approving Demonstration Fund grants to companies in Ames, Cedar Rapids, Hiawatha, Iowa City, and Johnston. more... New Coralville Fire Station to locate on University of Iowa Research park A new fire station for Coralville is on track to be completed in the fall. The station will serve the north side of the city. It will be located on 1.5 acres on Holiday Court, just north of Interstate 80. more... Financial Times ranking reflects Tippie MBA focus on experiential learning The Financial Times recently ranked the University of Iowa's Tippie MBA Finance program as the top public graduate finance program in the world -- an achievement that administrators say reflects the college's emphasis on learning by doing. more... NADS Engineer receives $900,000 federal contract to bring simulators to road design Automotive researchers have long known that testing the design of a proposed new car in a driving simulator before constructing a prototype can save time and money. So it may come as no surprise that a University of Iowa College of Engineering and National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) researcher has received a $900,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to make driving simulators more useful to highway designers who want to build safer roadways. more... Tenants settle in at eco-friendly BioVentures Center Finishing touches are all that remain for the University of Iowa’s BioVentures Center, which celebrated a ribbon cutting last week. The 90,000-square-foot, $20 million project serves as the university’s new business incubator, specifically geared toward taking scientific startups to the commercialization stage. more... BioVentures Center business incubator opens at UI Research Park The University of Iowa Research Park has opened its BioVentures Center, a business incubator that will house both start-up companies commercializing UI biotechnology research as well as life science ventures wanting to locate near the university and use its research capabilities. more... John Lohman wins the SBDC Neal Smith Entrepreneur of the Year Award John Lowman, owner of the Corridor Media Group and publisher of the Corridor Business Journal, a former University of Iowa Research Park/Technology Innovation Center tenat, has been awarded the Iowa Small Business Development Center's Neal Smith Entrepreneur of the Year Award more... UI engineer studies driver distraction in future vehicles A University of Iowa College of Engineering researcher has received a $698,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to study how vehicles of the future may detect and cope with driver distraction. more... VIDA Diagnostics gains FDA approval for comprehensive lung analysis software VIDA Diagnostics Inc., a University of Iowa Research Foundation licensee and UI Technology Innovation Center business incubator tenant, announced today that its primary product, Pulmonary Workstation 2.0 (PW2), has obtained FDA 510(k) clearance for sale. more... Optherion, UI ophthalmology department open new facility at UI Research Park Optherion Inc. and the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences have opened a new corporate and academic research facility at the University of Iowa Research Park in Coralville. Researchers and employees are developing products to diagnose and treat age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in developed countries. more... Hygienic Lab helps validate new rapid influenza test The University Hygienic Laboratory was one of six public health laboratories in the nation to participate in the validation for a new test that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved on Oct. 1 for the rapid detection of influenza virus. more... Researchers develop new model for cystic fibrosis In a first, researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Missouri have developed a pig model for cystic fibrosis (CF) that appears to closely mimic the disease in human infants. The striking similarities between disease manifestations in the CF piglets and human newborns with CF suggest that this new model will help improve understanding of the disease and may also speed discovery of new treatments. The study appears in the Sept. 26 issue of Science. more... UI research links creativity, economic growth in Iowa counties A new study by University of Iowa economics professor John Solow suggests that Iowa counties with a higher concentration of people who are part of the so-called "creative class" have stronger prospects for economic growth. The study ranks all of Iowa's 99 counties in a Creativity Index based on the one developed by economist Richard Florida. Perhaps not surprisingly, the top four counties are made up of Johnson and Story counties (home to the state's two largest universities) and Polk and Linn counties (home to Iowa's two largest metro areas and financial centers). more... VIDEO FEATURE: UI inspires the next generation of entrepreneurs More than 85 youth from eastern and central Iowa learned the nuts and bolts of starting their own businesses by attending the 12th annual Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship, organized through the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. more... UI and ISU establish shared DNA sequencing instrumentation The University of Iowa and Iowa State University are pooling their resources to significantly enhance both institutions' genetic research capabilities. more... Iowa students build business, get help from Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute Lessons learned at the Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute last year are helping a University of Iowa student and a recent UI graduate from Sioux City build their business. more... Pig-cloning project gets state aid The U of I and an Iowa firm are producing the models for medical research. A University of Iowa scientist and a compnay that specializes in cloning farm animals have joined to create pigs whose genetic alterations mimic human disease for us in medical research. more... UI Going Global in Iowa program offers free intercultural training Dec. 10 A new University of Iowa program will offer a free workshop Monday, Dec. 10 for people in the business community or nonprofit sectors who are interested in learning more about cross-cultural communication. more... Noel-Levitz opens new facility at UI's Oakdale Research Park Noel-Levitz, a higher education consulting firm, today hosted an open house for business, community and academic leaders in the Technology Corridor showcasing its new Coralville location at the University of Iowa Oakdale Research Park. more... Sharpe notes universities' tech transfer role (Business Week Online, Oct. 17) A new study on technology transfer at universities says that a good combination of partnerships, incentives and federal and local funding can help move research into the commercial arena, even when a school's research budget is modest. Universities have always played a role in economic development. After all, it's their responsibility to educate the workforce and keep U.S. employees ahead of the pack, says THOMAS SHARPE, associate vice president for economic development at the University of Iowa. Today the commitment to technology transfer allows universities yet another way to disseminate knowledge, through their inventions and discoveries, he says. Academic institutions, says Sharpe, have a legal responsibility, too. He cites the Bayh-Dole Act, which covers any research funded by the federal government. The 1980 law boosted technology transfer by assigning patent rights to universities. At the same time, schools are required to identify, patent, and license products that result from their federally funded research or to return the rights to the federal government to do so. To fulfill this obligation, Sharpe suggests universities take full advantage of the resources they have. He advises schools in rural areas to network and develop groups within the university to work together. At Iowa, for instance, six centers for enterprise work with one another on the greater goal of economic development and have an active technology transfer program. more... UI licensee Optherion secures $37 million in startup financing Optherion, Inc., a University of Iowa Research Foundation licensee and a company developing products to diagnose and treat age-related macular degeneration and other chronic diseases, today announced that it has completed $37 million startup financing and will expand into new facilities at the Oakdale Research Park in Coralville. more... Hageman appointed to Iowa Entrepreneurial Endowed Professorship Gregory Hageman, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been appointed to an Iowa Entrepreneurial Endowed Professorship. more... Health care entrepreneur, stent inventor Villafana to speak at UI Manny Villafana, a Minneapolis entrepreneur and developer of numerous frequently used pacemakers, stents and heart valves, will visit the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business next week. more... Fethke Announces President's 2007 Awards For Outreach, Public Engagement Several University of Iowa faculty members, staff members, students and organizations are this year's recipients of the UI President's Award for State Outreach and Public Engagement, UI Interim President Gary Fethke announced today. more... Technology Innovation Center Company Focuses On Childhood Disease Therapies A husband-and-wife team has recently formed KemPharm, Inc. to become the 17th tenant at the University of Iowa's Technology Innovation Center. KemPharm, an early phase biopharmaceutical company, is focusing on the discovery and development of new, safer therapies for childhood disease, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). more... Randy Weiss Joins UI Research Foundation As Entrepreneur-In-Residence Randy H. Weiss, a biotech startup company expert, will serve as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence within the University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF), helping to find, evaluate and develop UI "spinout" companies. UIRF defines a "spinout" company as a startup that has been borne out of UI teams and technologies, and "spun" out of the university. more... UI Associate Vice President Will Meet With Sioux City Business Leaders June 6 Thomas Sharpe, associate vice president for economic development, will meet with Sioux City business and community leaders Wednesday, June 6, to discuss the university's contribution to statewide economic development. Sharpe will speak at a breakfast meeting, starting at 7:30 a.m. at the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce office, 101 Pierce St. more... UI Vice Presidents Will Meet With Polk County Business Leaders May 21 Two University of Iowa officials will meet with Polk County business and community leaders Monday, May 21, to discuss the university's contribution to statewide economic development. UI Vice President for Research Meredith Hay and Associate Vice President for Economic Development Thomas Sharpe will speak at a joint meeting of the Greater Des Moines Partnership and the Technology Association of Iowa. The meeting begins at noon at the Greater Des Moines Partnership, 700 Locust St. in Des Moines. more... UI, National Genecular Institute, Ryan Companies Break Ground UI, National Genecular Institute, Ryan Companies Break Ground | The University of Iowa, Ryan Companies US, Inc., and National Genecular Institute, Inc. (NGI), a California subsidiary of Dermacia Inc., broke ground today (Monday, April 30) on the development of a 90,000-square-foot research laboratory and business incubator facility at the UI's Oakdale Research Park in Coralville, Iowa. more... Hay Comments On New Research Facility (GEN, April 23) The fountain of youth will be one step closer on April 30th, 2007 as the University of Iowa (UI) and National Genecular Institute, Inc. (NGI(TM)), a California subsidiary of Dermacia, Inc., will break ground on the development of a 90,000-square-foot research laboratory and business incubator facility on the UI Oakdale Research Campus (ORP) in Coralville, Iowa. more... UI Students Win $5,000 In Pappajohn Business Plan Competition Two University of Iowa students each won $5,000 seed capital grants in the Pappajohn New Venture Business Plan Competition last week, earning top honors among competitors from schools across Iowa. more... UI Pharmaceuticals passes FDA inspection UI Pharmaceuticals passes FDA inspection In September 2009, the Kansas City District Office of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitted a recommendation of approval to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research for The University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals (UIP) to manufacture and test an aseptically filled, sterile prescription drug product for a commercial client. The drug product contains a new chemical entity and is a sterile solution that is aseptically filled into vials. more... |