Indiana Inventors Association

Though she be but little, she is fierce.   — Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame Who would have thought that a small nonprofit organization in Carmel, IN could unlock the secret to preventing chronic malnutrition worldwide?   Glenn H. Sullivan, PhD (chairman/CEO Quintessence Nutraceuticals, Inc.; co‑founder, Sustainable Nutrition International ; senior partner, Intermark Partners Strategic Management, LLC; professor emeritus, Food Science Institute, Purdue University; recipient, USPTO Patents for Humanity Award ) told us how he and his co-inventors (U.S. patent US8,945,642 ) became alchemists by learning how to turn trash into treasure. An estimated 925 million individuals were malnourished in 2010.   One third of the children in developing countries (and many in Indiana) suffer from chronic malnutrition, a condition that kills them or prevents them from becoming independent adults.   Malnutrition could be prevented with rice, a cereal grain rich in nutrit