Feature Story
Where are you on OBIC's Cell to Sell ® Pipeline?
As a major manufacturing state, Ohio is a significant user of energy and materials. Ohio farmers and agribusiness can produce and convert biomass to supply major portions of this material demand as a substitute for petroleum. To enhance Ohio's position as a leader in bioproducts invocation, OBIC fosters discovery and use of new technologies via a market needs model, thereby accelerating bioproducts commercialization. Read More...

OBIC Collaborator Profile

• Ohio Department of Development- Deborah Cummings
  This month, OBIC features Deborah Cummings, Assistant Director for the Ohio Department of Development's Technology and Innovation Division. Cummings helps oversee the states technology-based economic development portfolio. The emergence of the bioproducts industrial cluster in the State of Ohio is a perfect example of this economic convergence of industrial strengths, and this is possible with the work that Cummings is doing with ODOD. Read More...

OBIC Featured Capabilities

• Battelle Combinatorial Chemistry Capabilities
  With the help of OBIC, Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio has made major advancements in their combinatorial chemistry facilities. Three new machines have been added to the facility. These new devises vary and collect data on multiple reaction parameters.Now, the laboratory is able to draw upon complementary functions at Battelle for product isolation and chemical analysis, process modeling, and chemical property prediction. Read More...

OBIC Media

• Biobutanol as an Energy Alternative
  Thaddeus EzejiDr. Thaddeus Ezeji, Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at The Ohio State University, discusses the production of a corn based butanol at OARDC in Wooster. This is the first in a two part presentation. Read More...

 

Upcoming Events

• Ohio Innovation Summit
  After four incredible years, the annual Ohio Innovation Summit (formerly the Ohio Nanosummit) is poised for the best-ever, fifth conference at the Dayton Convention Center on April 20 through 23, 2009.
  OIS ’09 is organized to provide three and one-half days of outstanding technical talks on nanomaterials,  nanocomputation,  nanomaterials/sensors,  nanomaterials/energy,  bionanomaterials, RF, EO, THz sensors, visualization, sensor networks, and algorithms. Read More...