The Early Innovator Program (EIP) is a summer entrepreneurship program for IGB-affiliated graduate students and post-docs. The 10 participants present their innovation proposals to a group of industry professionals and venture capitalists, who give feedback and evaluate the pitches. The top three winners receive proof of concept funding of up to $5,000.

Join us this Saturday for “Science at the Market” located at the Farmers Market at Lincoln Square mall in Urbana. The outreach team from the IGB will be there with cool science activities fun for the whole family!

Reginald Gaudino, PhD
Director, Cannabis Research Institute, Discovery Partners Institute at University of Illinois

"Cannabis Research - Past and Present: building a multidisciplinary team that used industry goals to achieve academic results and pave the way to future research"

Come find the IGB at Grange Grove, the official tailgate party area, before all University of Illinois home football games. We will be bringing a different hands-on and engaging science activity to each game. ILL! INI!

Bo Wang, PhD
Department of Bioengineering; Stanford University

"Learning the super power of animal diversity one cell type at a time: regeneration, symbiosis, and evolution"

Noah Whiteman, PhD
Departments of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology; University of California, Berkeley

"Acquisition of chemical defenses via horizontal gene transfer in insects"

Valkiria Durán-Narucki, PhD
Lecturer & Environmental Psychologist; College of Staten Island, City University of New York

"The Ecology of Learning Spaces: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology"

Paul Sternberg, PhD
Bren Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering;  California Institute of Technology

"Neural computation of semiochemicals in nematode sex and diapause"

Aaron Wright, PhD
Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science; Department of Biology;Baylor University

"Phenotype-Based Profiling of Environmental and Host-Associated Microbiomes"

Sara Piccirillo, PhD
The Robert M. Faxon Jr. Endowed Professor in Neuro-Oncology; University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

"Intra-tumor heterogeneity of human glioblastoma at single-cell and spatial resolution"