Lilly Endowment Inc. will give $20 million to an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne to develop workforce-training initiatives, the Indianapolis-based endowment announced today. The aim of the program, dubbed Talent Opportunity Success, is to better prepare northeast Indiana’s workforce for job opportunities in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. […]
Eli Lilly and Co. won U.S. approval for its drug Symbyax as a medicine for treatment-resistant depression, the company announced today. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration OK’d Symbyax as the first drug for the acute treatment of treatment-resistant depression. So-called TRD is depression that has not improved when treated by two other antidepressants. Symbyax […]
Eli Lilly and Co. won U.S. approval for its drug Symbyax as a medicine for treatment-resistant depression, the company announced today. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration OK’d Symbyax as the first drug for the acute treatment of treatment-resistant depression. So-called TRD is depression that has not improved when treated by two other antidepressants. Symbyax […]
Eli Lilly & Co. executives are making many trips to Washington to argue for 14 years of sales exclusivity for new drugs made
from cells.
Locally based Dow AgroSciences, one of Indianapolis’ top employers, may not be going on the sale block after all.
After two mega-mergers last week among pharma companies, the buzz grew deafening with speculation about future mergers, including the possibility of Eli Lilly and Co. linking up with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Indianapolis-based Lilly has steadfastly said it’s not interested in big mergers. But even if Lilly wanted to merge, does it have the capital to […]
The trio of attorneys who practice in the local office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s life sciences group is a self-deprecating, peculiar bunch. Not only are the three the punch line of an occasional lawyer joke, but they’re also the target of lighthearted ribbing about their scholarly credentials. “We’re the geeky group,” patent attorney Kevin […]
Pathway Productions, purveyors of some of the highest-profile documentaries to come out of the Indianapolis area in the last
decade, is on the brink of extinction.
Lawyers holding doctorates in biotech, biology, chemistry and computer sciences are in high demand by firms with strong intellectual
property practices.
United Way of Central Indiana CEO Ellen Annala is thankful for the $38.8 million in pledges to its annual campaign, although it didn’t quite reach its $40 million fund-raising goal.
Pathway Productions, purveyors of some of the highest-profile documentaries to come out of the Indianapolis area in the last decade, is on the brink of extinction. Not even a rescue plan forwarded by Mays Chemical Co. President William Mays last year could save the company. Mays blames former Pathway owner Michael Husain for driving the […]
The trio of attorneys who practice in the local office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s life sciences group is a self-deprecating, peculiar bunch. Not only are the three the punch line of an occasional lawyer joke, but they’re also the target of lighthearted ribbing about their scholarly credentials. “We’re the geeky group,” patent attorney Kevin […]
United Way of Central Indiana fell short of its $40 million yearly fund-raising goal, but CEO Ellen Annala said she was thankful for the $38.8 million in pledges announced today at the not-for-profit’s annual meeting. The last time the organization fell short of its annual goal was in 2001. In the wake of 9/11, the […]
United Way of Central Indiana fell short of its $40 million yearly fund-raising goal, but CEO Ellen Annala said she was thankful for the $38.8 million in pledges announced today at the not-for-profit’s annual meeting. The last time the organization didn’t meet its annual goal was in 2001. In the wake of 9/11, the campaign […]
Eli Lilly and Co. has temporarily blocked Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from selling a cheaper generic copy of Lilly’s osteoporosis drug Evista. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker issued a restraining order yesterday in Lilly’s hometown of Indianapolis, keeping raloxifene HCl tablets off the market for at least 10 days. The ruling kicked off the […]
Eli Lilly and Co. asked a judge today to block Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from selling a cheaper generic copy of Lilly’s osteoporosis drug Evista, Bloomberg News reported. Indianapolis-based Lilly made the request before U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker, who didn’t make a ruling today, the first day of a patent-infringement trial between the […]
Merck & Co. plans to acquire Schering-Plough Corp. for $41.1 billion in a deal that gives the companies more firepower to compete in a drug industry facing slumping sales, tough generic competition and intense cost pressures. The two New Jersey pharmaceutical companies are rivals of Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. The latest proposed combination comes […]
Several venture capitalists — a generation younger than most in the profession — are establishing themselves in Indianapolis.
The 600-seat Randall L. and Marianne W. Tobias Theater (nicknamed The Toby) is arguably the greenest facility of its kind
in the nation.
The 600-seat Randall L. and Marianne W. Tobias Theater (nicknamed The Toby) sits at the nexus of two cultural frontiers. On the arts front, it offers a home to cutting-edge entertainers, speakers and films. On the environmental front, the newly remodeled performance space is arguably the greenest facility of its kind in the nation. It […]
