Tag: university of illinois research park

C16 Biosciences cofounder David Heller (center) holds a silver trophy while shaking hands with a man. A woman stands to his right on a stage in front of signs that say Startup World Cup.

AgTech Week brings pitch competition for startups, discussions on biomanufacturing to Champaign-Urbana

AgTech Week is a celebration of Champaign-Urbana’s ag tech industry.

Budzinski tours ag research at U of I and visits with laid-off Akorn workers in Decatur

U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski visited the University of Illinois Research Park in Champaign on Thursday. But first, the central Illinois Democrat stopped in Decatur, where more than 400 pharmaceutical plant workers had been abruptly laid off by Akorn Pharmaceutical.