A feed additive for animals made by Greenfield-based Elanco Animal Health sparked two federal lawsuits last week filed by environmental and public health groups against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. According to Reuters, the suit seeks to reverse the FDA’s recent approvals of products containing ractopamine that are used to boost the weight of […]
After planning a move to Westfield, Algaeon Inc. has instead leased new space in Indianapolis for a research and production facility. Planning 25 hires, it is seeking a tax break from the city on $4.9 million in new equipment.
WellPoint’s stock has benefited the most among major insurers since the 2013 launch of the Obamacare exchanges, along with tax subsidies to buy insurance.
New Jersey-based Covance Inc., which employs about 1,500 workers in Indianapolis and Greenfield, has agreed to be acquired by Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings for $6.1 billion. According to Bloomberg News, North Carolina-based LabCorp wants to add contract research services for drug companies to its offering of medical diagnostic tests, the companies announced Monday. Covance […]
Covance manages clinical trials for drugmakers including locally-based Eli Lilly and Co. It employs about 1,500 workers in Indianapolis and Greenfield.
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A year after announcing plans to move its headquarters from San Diego to Carmel, wellness provider American Specialty Health has about 170 employees working in central Indiana—including 60 who relocated from other offices. It plans to hire another 30 this year and up to 250 in 2015.
Local Initiatives Support Corp. has unveiled the results of a year-long study to identify the best uses for vacant industrial properties and what areas of the city need the most attention. Topping the list: the East Washington Street corridor.
Lilly CEO John Lechleiter kicked off the company’s quarterly conference call with investors and analysts by declaring an end to the “unprecedented challenge” that Lilly lived through the past four years.
The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis awarded grants totaling $3.15 million to 10 health care providers and AIDS service agencies to help end AIDS in Indiana. The grants are more than six times as much money as the Health Foundation has given in any previous year. The largest grant, $1.3 million, will help The Damien […]
Gov. Frank O’Bannon appointed Judge Nancy H. Vaidik to the Court of Appeals in 2000, and last year her colleagues named her chief judge of the court for the three-year term that began in January.
Mary Beth Claus, senior vice president and general counsel of Indiana University Health, is responsible for all legal and compliance matters for IU Health’s system of 20 hospitals and other health care facilities.
Are your personal beliefs on mass transit getting in the way of Indianapolis’ future? As soon as I told my parents that I got a job downtown, they mildly panicked.
Founded in 1960, the Indiana Transportation Museum has been working for decades to preserve the Nickel Plate Railroad’s legacy by offering guests what it calls “moving experiences”—literally.
The federal government has spent $27 billion—and hospital systems have spent even more—to roll out electronic medical records across the industry. But even advocates say the results have been “disappointing.”
The deal calls for the Indianapolis-based NCAA to toughen return-to-play rules for college athletes. It also would create a medical fund to test current and former athletes for brain trauma.
Angie's List Inc. continued to lose money in the third quarter and failed to meet Wall Street expectations. However, the loss was smaller than a year ago, and revenue jumped 24 percent.
A new think tank report, which appears to jibe with Obama administration concerns, calls for “significant revision” to the Pence plan.
Anagin LLC, a company started last year by Indiana University researchers, won the BioCrossroads new venture competition for its plans to develop drugs to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The $25,000 prize from BioCrossroads, an Indianapolis-based life sciences business development group, comes in addition to a $692,706 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Anagin was co-founded by Dr. Anantha Shekhar, a psychiatrist at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and Yvonne Lai, a scientist in IU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in Bloomington. Anagin is trying to develop drugs that block PTSD without causing common side effects such as irritability, sexual dysfunction, addiction, and memory and motor-skill problems. Along with its BioCrossroads prize and NIH grant, Anagin will receive $50,000 in matching funds from state-funded Elevate Ventures.
Activate Healthcare LLC, an Indianapolis-based workplace health clinic operator, plans to expand its local operations, adding as many as 203 employees over the next nine years. Activate said it will spend $656,080 to lease a 3,400-square-foot office at 9302 N. Meridian St., more than tripling the size of its existing headquarters. The company operates 22 primary health care clinics in the Midwest, including 18 in Indiana that offer care to more than 40,000 patients. The clinics are within or near workplaces. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. said it offered the company $3.9 million in conditional tax credits and up to $200,000 in training grants based on the firm’s job-creation plans. Activate has about 110 full-time Indiana workers, but its base employment will be considered 84, according to the incentives agreement reached with IEDC. That means the company will need to have 287 employees by the end of 2023 to fully comply with the contract.
Eli Lilly and Co. will close one of its three manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico at the end of 2015, according to the Associated Press. The Indianapolis company said it is closing its Guayama facility because the patents on some of the drugs made there have expired. Lilly intends to sell the Guayama plant. Lilly said the 100 employees who work there will be offered jobs at another of its facilities on the island, which are in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Guayama is in the southeastern part of Puerto Rico, and Carolina is in the northeast. Lilly has announced $240 million in investments in its Carolina facilities since late 2013.
The Indiana Medicaid program will receive more than $181,000 from a fraud settlement struck by states’ attorneys general and the federal government with the drug manufacturer Organon Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. According to The Statehouse File, the settlement resolves whistleblower allegations that Organon underpaid rebates to the state, offered improper financial incentives to nursing home pharmacies, promoted two of its antidepressants for unapproved uses, and misrepresented its drug prices to the Indiana Medicaid program to reap larger margins and increased sales. Organon, which is now owned by New Jersey-based Merck & Co. Inc., will pay $31 million to settle the lawsuits with the states and the federal government. Of that, Indiana Medicaid will receive $162,346 in a settlement arising from a whistleblower lawsuit filed in Massachusetts and $19,016 in a settlement arising from another whistleblower suit filed in Texas.
WISH-TV Channel 8 meteorologist Pamela Gardner is leaving the station to take a job with WBZ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Boston, industry sources told IBJ.
