Purdue startup lands $30M in funding to commercialize cancer imaging agent
A West Lafayette-based startup founded by Indiana life sciences icon Dr. Philip Low has closed on a $30 million Series C funding round. On Target Laboratories Inc. plans to use the funding to accelerate commercialization of Cytalux, a molecular imaging agent used to illuminate cancer cells during surgery. Cytalux received approval from the U.S. Food […]
Iowa State University New Innovation and Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows cohort announced
Projects using artificial intelligence to solve agricultural problems, cultivating Iowa’s wild yeast, and enhancing a food product development class are just a sampling of what faculty will be working on this coming year. A group of 11 faculty representing eight departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University have been […]
US agency launches experiments to find innovative ways to fund research
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced plans to explore creative ways of funding research, emphasizing the need to make decisions more quickly and to support more proposals that are innovative. The agency has partnered with the Institute for Progress (IFP), a think tank based in Washington DC, which will conduct a series of economic and […]