Life Science & Biotech

Most of Indiana's largest public companies enjoyed strong 2012Restricted Content

June 15, 2013
Angie's List turned a profit for the first time in nearly two decades.
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Lilly halts trial of experimental Alzheimers drug

June 14, 2013
The trial ended after participants showed abnormal liver biochemistry, the Indianapolis-based drugmaker said Thursday in a statement.
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Bio-Response expanding in Hendricks County

June 10, 2013
 IBJ Staff
Wastewater equipment maker is moving to a Danville business park to build a $1.1 million facility.
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New institute aims to attract 100 research scientists to Indiana

May 30, 2013
J.K. Wall
The $360 million initiative will be formally launched on Thursday by Gov. Mike Pence, executives of five major life sciences companies and officials of the state’s research universities.
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Mobile health apps could cut into state companies' market share

May 18, 2013
J.K. Wall
The future of Indiana’s sprawling health care and life sciences industry might be threatened by an unlikely source: smartphone apps.
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PINCUS: State needs better life sciences startup ecosystem

May 18, 2013
Jack Pincus / Special to IBJ
Indiana’s life sciences sector is mostly composed of legacy companies.
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Report: Roche mulls sale of blood-glucose monitor business

May 17, 2013
J.K. Wall
Roche Diagnostics Corp. is considering a sale of its blood-glucose meter business, a move that would cast uncertainty over the nearly 1,000 people working for its diabetes business in Indianapolis.
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PANEL: Life sciences will see radically different futureRestricted Content

May 17, 2013
IBJ convened a panel of experts at its Life Sciences Power Breakfast on May 10 to talk about the industry issues of venture capital, digital health innovations and research university entrepreneurship.

Panel members included Kristin Eilenberg, CEO, Lodestone Logic, Infuse Accelerator; Philip S. Low, Purdue University professor of chemistry, founder and chief science officer at Endocyte Inc. and On Target Laboratories LLC; R. Matthew Neff, president, CHV Capital Inc.; Brian Stemme, project director; BioCrossroads; Brian S. Williams, director, Global Healthcare Strategy, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.; and Raul Zaveleta, CEO, Indigo BioSystems Inc.

The following is an unedited transcript of the discussion.

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New seed fund aims to make Indiana a hotbed for digital health startupsRestricted Content

May 4, 2013
J.K. Wall
Infuse Accelerator hopes to make early-stage investments in 12 to 15 companies a year.
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Lilly suing J&J for patent rights in Alzheimer's drug race

April 25, 2013
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly and Co. is seeking to revoke a patent held by a Johnson & Johnson unit, arguing at a London court it might delay availability of a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Dow AgroSciences grows sales, earnings to new heights

April 25, 2013
Mason King, Bloomberg News
Record sales for seeds and new crop protection products helped boost revenue 14 percent at Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC in its new fiscal year.
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Lilly seeks $30.6M in tax breaks on downtown projects

April 15, 2013
Mason King
Indianapolis development officials on Wednesday will weigh the 10-year requests from the pharmaceuticals giant related to a new manufacturing plant and improvements to existing operations downtown.
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IU medical school's push to launch startups bears fruitRestricted Content

April 13, 2013
J.K. Wall
The Indiana University School of Medicine has launched 12 companies in the past 18 months—a burst of startup activity the school has never seen before.
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Expected revenue slump spurs Lilly to cut sales force

April 11, 2013
J.K. Wall
The Indianapolis pharmaceuticals giant said Thursday that it would lay off hundreds of U.S. sales reps, as it prepares for the loss of patent protection on two of its best-selling drugs.
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City to buy key parcel for 16th Street tech corridorRestricted Content

April 6, 2013
Scott Olson
The city of Indianapolis is poised to pay Citizens Energy Group $6.5 million to buy a key parcel of real estate it’s targeting as the centerpiece of its ambitious 16 Tech project.
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Lilly pulls back from proposals lowering takeover barriersRestricted Content

April 6, 2013
Greg Andrews
Fortunately, a Lilly takeover looks less likely today than it has in a long time—for both obvious and more subtle reasons.
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Lilly to spend $180M doubling size of Indy plant

April 2, 2013
The new investment will bring the plant's total price tag to $320 million as the pharmaceutical giant seeks to increase production of insulin and related products.
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Sherry Labs snapped up by Netherlands corporation

April 1, 2013
Jeff Newman
The materials-testing business with nearly 300 employees has been acquired by Element Materials Technology. Sherry had been owned by a group of well-connected central Indiana businessmen.
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Profits at center of biosimilars debate

March 18, 2013
J.K. Wall
House Bill 1315, which is scheduled for a Senate floor hearing on Monday, would require pharmacists to check with a patient’s physician before automatically substituting a generic version of a biotech drug for a brand-name version.
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Medical device maker moving to Noblesville, adding jobs

March 12, 2013
Fishers-based Nexxt Spine LLC, a manufacturer of spinal implants, is consolidating operations and moving its headquarters and manufacturing facility to Noblesville.
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Q&A

March 11, 2013
J.K. Wall
Mike Sherman, the chief financial officer at West Lafayette-based Endocyte Inc., talked about how the drug firm’s funding partnership with New Jersey-based Merck & Co. Inc. has helped accelerate development of the company’s pipeline, which is branching out into drugs to treat cancers of the lung, prostate and breast.
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Lilly sues Genentech to invalidate Erbitux-related patents

March 2, 2013
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly and Co. has sued Roche Holding AG’s Genentech unit, asking a court to invalidate patents used to make treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
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Dow AgroSciences wins bid to overturn pesticide guidelines

February 21, 2013
Bloomberg News
Indianapolis-based Dow Agrosciences LLC and two other pesticide makers won a bid to overturn U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service proposals to protect salmon when an appeals court found the agency’s decision “arbitrary and capricious.”
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Lilly to expand partnership with diagnostic firm

February 14, 2013
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Diagnostic products maker Qiagen NV said Wednesday that it will work with Eli Lilly and Co. to develop new tests that could identify patients who could be helped by Lilly's drugs.
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'12 worst year for life sciences since 1990s

February 11, 2013
J.K. Wall
To understand why Indiana’s life sciences entrepreneurs are frustrated with the flow of venture capital, look no further than this statistic from a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report: 2012 was the slowest year for first-time life sciences investment since 1995.
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