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Purdue to get $12M to help small health providers

Stimulus funds will help university’s technical assistance service show doctors and nurses in small groups and in medically under-served areas how to adopt medical-records technologies.

Will 2012 chassis breath new life into IndyCar?

Bold new designs for an open-wheel chassis in 2012 are getting lots of attention from racing insiders. But without better
driver recruitment and marketing, it won’t be enough to save the sport.

Coats says he’s met Indiana’s petition deadline

Former Republican Sen. Dan Coats’ campaign says it has enough petition signatures to put him on Indiana’s May primary ballot
as he seeks the Senate seat Democrat Evan Bayh is leaving.

Shootings kill one, injure another

A pair of shootings Monday night on the west side of Indianapolis that police think could be related left one man dead and
another injured. Police were called to a Taco Bell after a man showed up with gunshot wounds to his head and leg. He told
officers he was a victim of an attempted street robbery and that he fought the suspect for the gun. Later, another man with
a gunshot wound died after being taken to Wishard Hospital. The woman who dropped him off said he was shot near Sheffield
Avenue.

Lawmaker still pushing smoking ban

An Indiana lawmaker continues to push for a bill to ban smoking in most public places in the Hoosier state, despite expected
resistance from Senate leadership. State Rep. Charlie Brown authored the most recent smoking ban bill, which was watered down
by fellow House members. They voted to allow smoking in bars, restaurants, gaming facilities and private clubs. Brown sent
a letter Monday to state senators, urging them to remove those exemptions and pass a comprehensive ban. The bill faces long
odds in the Senate.

Indiana commuters deal with snow

Commuters are still experiencing slick road conditions on some Indianapolis roads. While most of the interstates are in good
shape, many side streets remain snow-covered. The slick conditions led to a pickup truck sliding into the back of a school
bus on Edgewood Avenue near U.S. 31 on Tuesday morning. No children were aboard the bus and no injuries were reported. Fox59
will have more at 4 p.m.

Testing Inline Photo Gallery

It’s a good thing the tornado that mangled the covered bridge at Moscow didn’t arrive until June 2008. Had the twister struck a generation earlier, residents might have cleared the debris from the Flatrock River, slapped up a concrete span in its place, and congratulated one another on the progress. Instead, thanks to growing appreciation […]

Go west (to Hendricks County)

The economy is as good or better in Hendricks County than anywhere else in the Indianapolis area.

Meetings start public discussion of regional transit plan

Indy Connect will hold its first public forum Tuesday evening to begin the process of gathering public input on a regional
transportation plan that proposes raising taxes to build a light-rail line, improve bus service and expand roadways.

Westfield lumber company part of acquisition

Hall & House Lumber Co. in Westfield will become part of one of the largest distributors of lumber and building materials
in the nation, once the purchase of its parent is completed next month.

Simon making $10B bet on future of malls

Wall Street today is cheering Simon Property Group Inc.’s giant bet on the future of retail real estate, a sector that
appeared left for dead just months ago. The nation’s largest mall owner has offered $10 billion to take over its
nearest rival, Chicago-based General Growth Properties Inc., which is in bankruptcy.

Democrats face uncertainty in filling Bayh’s shoes

Sen. Evan Bayh’s decision not to seek a third term left Indiana Democrats on Monday scrambling to identify a general election
candidate while grappling with the loss of their most reliable vote-getter and the only party member to win a statewide office
in the past decade.

IUPUI gets OK for public-safety master’s degree

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has approved the state’s first master of science degree program in criminal justice
and public safety. The program will begin next fall at IUPUI.

WellPoint hits bottom with customers

Even before WellPoint dissatisfied President Obama over its rate increases in California, it wasn’t doing so hot satisfying
its actual customers, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

People

Jeff Radabaugh has been promoted to vice president of Clarian Health’s ambulatory services, which
include LifeLine Critical Care Transport, Clarian Home Care and Hospice services, Clarian Sleep Disorders Centers and Clarian
Occupational Health programs. Radabaugh’s group now also will support Clarian Health affiliates throughout the state.

Cara Breidster, corporate controller for Clarian Health, has been promoted to vice president of finance
and corporate controller.

Debra Bedwell, a registered nurse, has been named
director of Community MedCheck Express.

Kelly Grabman has been
named site manager for Community Physicians of Indiana’s County Line Medical Pavilion.

Sharon Jenkins was named site manager for Pendleton Medical Group,
Lapel Medical Arts and Fortville Community Medicine.

Teresa Miller, a registered
nurse, has been named clinical manager for the intensive care and progressive care unit at Community
Hospital South.

Timothy Tapp was named chief operating officer at Gallahue Mental Health Services.

Company news

Forget venture capital. Forget selling the firm outright. ImmuneWorks, an Indianapolis-based biotech firm,
is taking a different route to get early-stage funding for money-sucking biotech drug development. The company signed
a joint development agreement with Lung Rx, a subsidiary of Maryland-based United Therapeutics Corp. Lung Rx will fund ImmuneWorks’
research and development operations with the option of acquiring the firm. ImmuneWorks, based on the research of Dr. David
Wilkes at the Indiana University School of Medicine, is trying to develop treatments for orphan lung diseases, which affect
fewer than 200,000 people nationwide.

Looks like the changing of the guard in Indianapolis-based
Eli Lilly and Co.’s research operations is going beyond Dr. Steve Paul. In the
same month Paul retired, his top lieutenant, Dr. William Chin, has taken a newly created job at Harvard
Medical School. Chin was Lilly’s senior vice president for discovery research and clinical investigation.
Paul was replaced by Jan M. Lundberg, former head of global discovery research at London-based AstraZeneca
plc. Looks like Lundberg will be bringing in his own team.

Indiana University School of Medicine
researchers have identified a mechanism by which tuberculosis evades the body’s immune system
and have identified a compound that blocks the tuberculosis bacteria’s ability to survive. Those
insights could lead to new drugs to treat tuberculosis. Zhong-Yin Zhang, a professor of biochemistry
and molecular biology, was the lead author explaining the discoveries in in this week’s online
early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Zhang’s team also described
an anti-tuberculosis compound they have synthesized, A09. The compound is now being evaluated in animals at Johns
Hopkins University School of Public Health.