Bioscience

Roche acquires Marcadia Biotech

December 30, 2010
Chris O'Malley
Marcadia Biotech Inc., a Carmel-based biopharmaceutical company founded by prominent scientists from Eli Lilly and Co. in 2006, has been acquired by Swiss life sciences giant Roche.
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Dow AgroSciences moves into new research facility

November 20, 2010
 IBJ Staff
The division of Dow Chemical has a 15-year lease with Indianapolis-based developer Browning Investments on the two-story building near West 96th Street.
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Dow Agro acquires Colorado seed company

September 2, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Grand Valley Hybrids has been growing and conditioning hybrid seed corn in the West since 1946.
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Local economic espionage case full of intrigue

September 1, 2010
Cory Schouten
The government's allegations read like a spy novel: Dr. Ke-xue "John" Huang lands a job at Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences and over five years works himself into a position of trust, with access to trade secrets and processes the company has invested $300 million to develop.
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Ex-Dow Agro scientist's espionage indictment unsealed

August 31, 2010
 IBJ Staff
A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in Indianapolis charged 45-year-old Ke-xue "John" Huang with theft and attempted theft of trade secrets to benefit a foreign government.
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Ex-Dow AgroSciences employee accused of stealing trade secrets

July 31, 2010
Chris O'Malley
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Ke-xue Huang, a native of China's Hunan province, of stealing trade secrets of a Dow AgroSciences insecticide and giving them to the People's Republic of China. Federal agents arrested the former Dow Agro scientist July 13 in Westboro, Mass.
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Indiana life sciences companies capture more venture capital money in first half of 2010

July 31, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Venture dollars for Hoosier companies are still few, but the flow of deals is picking up.
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AIT Labs moving headquarters, adding 160 jobs

June 17, 2010
Scott Olson
The Indianapolis-based forensics, clinical and pharmaceutical testing firm, led by CEO Michael Evans, plans to invest $74 million to acquire and equip an existing 90,000-square-foot building in Woodland Corporate Park near West 79th Street and Interstate 465.
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Medical device startup FlowCo enlists Guidant alums

April 24, 2010
Chris O'Malley
The upstart developer of a device to help doctors choose the right-sized stent to prop open clog-prone arteries has brought aboard former Guidant Corp. executives, including Bill McConnell. Their regulatory and marketing expertise could help FlowCo Inc. bring its artery-measurement product to market as soon as 2011.
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Indiana companies that serve pharmaceutical industry grew in 2009

February 20, 2010
 IBJ Staff
The firms continued to grow over the last year but face increasing challenges, according to a new report by Indianapolis-based life sciences trade group BioCrossroads.
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Builder looks to cold storage for steady work in a weak economyRestricted Content

December 5, 2009
Brock Benefiel
Cold storage might become a hot business for a building contractor.
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Lilly Endowment funds OrthoWorx effort with $7 million

September 23, 2009
J.K. Wall
A new group expected to develop the orthopedic implants industry in Warsaw will be able to proceed now that Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. is putting $7 million behind it, according to an announcement this morning.
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Medical device developer receives $1M in federal funding

September 10, 2009
Scott Olson
Indianapolis-based FAST Diagnostics, a developer of a method to quickly measure kidney function, announced today that it has received $1 million in federal funding.
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Abatement approval paves way for Covance jobs

August 12, 2009
Scott Olson
The Hancock County Council this morning unanimously approved a tax-incentive agreement that should lead Covance Inc. to add 315 jobs at its Greenfield Laboratories.
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Emerging life sciences companies grabbing more in government grantsRestricted Content

August 10, 2009
Chris O'Malley
More emerging life science companies have found life in the form of federal Small Business Innovation Research grants.
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Lilly cancels trials for experimental MS drug

July 28, 2009
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly and Co. and a development partner has canceled clinical trials on an experimental drug to treat multiple sclerosis after the drug failed to delay progression of the disease in trial patients.
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Dow Agrosciences introduces genetically modified corn seedRestricted Content

July 27, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Even after a string of acquisitions, Dow AgroSciences is a bit player in the seed business. But the new genetically modified corn it developed with St. Louis-based giant Monsanto Co. finally provides the breakthrough product that could grow its seed sales substantially.
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Stem cell discovery promises health care revolutionRestricted Content

April 13, 2009
Bloomberg News
Scientists are using a new stem-cell technique that may someday revolutionize care for disorders as diverse as diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and muscular dystrophy.
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Indiana playing trailblazing role in drive to tailor pharmaceuticals to genetic makeup of individualsRestricted Content

April 13, 2009
Chris O'Malley
Indiana is becoming not only a hotbed of "pharmacogenomics" research, but also a trailblazer in finding practical ways to use it on the practitioner level.
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Executives make many trips to Washington to argue for 14 years of sales exclusivity for new drugs made from cellsRestricted Content

March 23, 2009
J.K. Wall
Eli Lilly & Co. executives are making many trips to Washington to argue for 14 years of sales exclusivity for new drugs made from cells.
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Biotech push may help offset generic competition; some analysts skepticalRestricted Content

February 2, 2009
J.K. Wall
Lilly executives want to make biotech their top focus.
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Biotech venture fund in worksRestricted Content

January 5, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
BioCrossroads is setting the stage to create Indiana Future Fund II, an effort that would raise tens of millions of dollars for speculation on promising Hoosier life science companies.
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Report sees jackpot with BioCrossroads, but expert sees obstaclesRestricted Content

February 4, 2008
J.K. Wall
Three months after launching an initiative to boost drug-development firms in Indiana, officials at BioCrossroads have written a report that attempts to show in detail the vast market opportunity they see.
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IU takes statewide approach to life sciences pitchRestricted Content

January 21, 2008
J.K. Wall
For the last two months, two academics at Indiana University and Purdue University have been discussing how the institutions can work together to rev up research in medicine and life sciences and, in the process, boost Indiana's economy.
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Ex-Lilly execs take on diabetes with Carmel startupRestricted Content

November 6, 2006
Peter Schnitzler
Four former top scientists at Eli Lilly and Co. have formed a Carmel-based company to develop diabetes therapies--a venture observers say has the potential to become the kind of blockbuster success BioCrossroads was built to stimulate.
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