Customer insights reveal new opportunities for emerging drug delivery platform

Saloni Darji is conducting research about layer-by-layer elastin-like polypeptide nucleic acid nanoparticle (LENN), providing an alternative to current lipid nanoparticle delivery systems which must be stored as liquids below minus 45 degrees Celsius. The primary goal of this technology is the targeted delivery of genetic material to cancer cells, with current work on bladder cancer. […]
Purdue Innovates Commercialization Fellow tackles data annotation bottlenecks

Pranshul Sardana’s technology accelerates data annotation, making it easier to prepare large, complex image and video datasets for machine‑learning models to enable higher accuracy predictions. The technology will primarily target medical and pharmaceutical AI applications, where freeing up the domain expert’s time could help develop new therapies more quickly and efficiently. When Sardana first began […]
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue: Nien-Hwa (Linda) Wang

National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue NAI Fellow 2021 Nien-Hwa (Linda) Wang College of Engineering Norman and Jane Li Professorship in Chemical Engineering The NAI Fellows Program celebrates academic inventors whose work spans multiple disciplines and exemplifies their collaboration, dedication and innovation to transform research into real-world commercial technologies that contribute to the betterment […]
Purdue Innovates Accelerator founders showcase innovation at Pitch Night

On August 27, the second Purdue Innovates Accelerator cohort concluded its 14-week, investment-based program at Pitch Night. After intensive mentorship, investor pitching, and educational opportunities, the five teams shared their well-honed pitches with an audience keen to support Boilermaker innovation. “This year’s Accelerator cohort demonstrated exactly what we hoped to achieve through the program: measurable […]
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue: Jessica Huber

National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue NAI Fellow 2019 Jessica Huber No longer at Purdue The NAI Fellows Program celebrates academic inventors whose work spans multiple disciplines and exemplifies their collaboration, dedication and innovation to transform research into real-world commercial technologies that contribute to the betterment of society. Jessica Huber’s research focuses on speech […]
Purdue Innovates selects three new Commercialization Fellows to accelerate technology from lab to market

Purdue Innovates and three Purdue University colleges have announced the latest Commercialization Fellowship cohort. The fellowship provides recent Ph.D. graduates and postdoctoral researchers an opportunity to advance the commercialization of Purdue-owned intellectual property through startup creation or licensing to industry. Working alongside faculty inventors, each fellow will help move Purdue innovations closer to real-world impact […]
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue: Haiyan Wang

National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue NAI Fellow 2020 Haiyan Wang College of Engineering Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering The NAI Fellows Program celebrates academic inventors whose work spans multiple disciplines and exemplifies their collaboration, dedication and innovation to transform research into real-world commercial technologies that contribute to the betterment of society. Haiyan […]
The future of semiconductors has a new home: Purdue and Taiwan forge partnerships for the industry’s next chapter

A Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University delegation visited GeChi Compound Semiconductor Co., Ltd. for in-depth discussions on topics such as AI, human training, and high-power research. (Photo: Purdue Research Foundation) For decades, the semiconductor industry has been defined by a handful of global centers of innovation. Today, that map is changing. From artificial intelligence […]
National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue: Santokh Badesha

National Academy of Inventors Fellows at Purdue NAI Fellow 2021 Santokh Badesha College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering The NAI Fellows Program celebrates academic inventors whose work spans multiple disciplines and exemplifies their collaboration, dedication and innovation to transform research into real-world commercial technologies that contribute to the betterment of society. […]
Purdue marks grand opening of Third Coast Foundry during San Francisco Deep Tech Week

James “Jim” Bullard, the Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business; Lucy Flesch, the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science; and Brooke Beier, senior vice president of Purdue Innovates, attend the grand opening of Third Coast Foundry in San Francisco. (Purdue University College of Science photo/Molly Walker) […]