With overhaul looming, organ network pushes to reduce wait times
The Indiana Donor Network, which serves 85 of Indiana’s 92 counties, is booming with a record number of registered donors and transplanted organs.
The Indiana Donor Network, which serves 85 of Indiana’s 92 counties, is booming with a record number of registered donors and transplanted organs.
Purdue is partnering with California-based Surf Air Mobility Inc. to begin scheduled commuter air service between West Lafayette and O’Hare International Airport in Chicago in early second quarter 2024.
The company presented plans to the Noblesville City Council for two new rental-home communities, but some councilors expressed concerns about the amount of housing under development in the city.
In the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, median rent rose an astounding 19.3% from December 2020 to December 2021, according to a Realtor.com analysis of properties with two or fewer bedrooms. Indianapolis-area rents have seen a smaller, but still significant, jump.
Gil Peri begins his new job just as the system is about to undertake one of its biggest projects in a decade—relocating its maternity services from Methodist Hospital to new, centralized maternity and newborn health unit at Riley Hospital, as part of a $142 million expansion.
Here’s a look at the eight people who lost their lives Thursday in the tragic mass shooting at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
The repurposed building at Washington and Post formerly housed Liberty Bell Flea Market. Also this week: New Bottleworks tenants, Circle Centre food court departures and more.
The Harbour, YogaSix and Witch Hazel Salon will join a growing list of tenants for the first phase of the 12-acre, $300 million mixed-use development at 850 Massachusetts Ave., officials said.
Station officials confirmed that reporter Brittany Lewis is departing, and several industry sources told IBJ that anchor Lauren Lowrey—who has been on maternity leave since late August—also is leaving.
The big changes in the federal tax code aren’t happening in a vacuum. They will force officials in most states to decide whether to apply similar changes, while some residents ponder whether they now might be better off living somewhere else.
In interview with IBJ, Genesys President Tom Eggemeier says the company is pleased with its Interactive Intelligence acquisition and plans to ramp up its local headcount.
Breg Inc. will continue to supply thousands of orthopedic surgeons from operations in Indianapolis after relocating to a facility near the airport.
Toyota Material Handling USA Inc. said it plans to add up to 71 workers by the end of 2019 at its facility in Columbus.
An evening meteorologist and a sports anchor/reporter are the latest personalities to depart from WISH-TV Channel 8.
Indianapolis-based New Sunshine, which is owned by a group led by former Conseco Inc. CEO Stephen Hilbert, said it will add 180 jobs by moving a manufacturing facility from Tempe, Ariz.
A panel of medical advisers recommended against wider use of Zimmer Holdings Inc.’s spine stabilization
device, according to Reuters. In a 5-1 vote, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel said the data for Zimmer’s
Dynesys Spinal System were unclear and left them with questions about the device’s durability and propensity to break.
Warsaw-based Zimmer already markets the device, which is a series of screws and flexible spacers that help align and support
the spine, for patients who have received fusion surgery. The company is seeking
FDA approval to market Dynesys for stand-alone use. FDA officials will weigh the
panel’s recommendation before making their final approval decision.
New Jersey-based Enzon
Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to sell its specialty pharmaceutical business, along with its
Indianapolis manufacturing facility, to Italy-based Sigma-tau Group. As of January 2008, Enzon’s
facility in Indianapolis employed about 150 workers. It made four medicines, which treated certain kinds of leukemia, meningitis,
fungal infections and the immunodeficiency malady known as “bubble boy disease.” Sigma-tau
paid $300 million for the business, as well as royalties and other payments contingent upon future sales
and development achievements.
Arcadia Resources Inc. sold nearly 16 million
shares of stock in a registered direct offering that raised $11.1 million. Arcadia Chief Financial Officer
Matt Mittendorf said the Indianapolis-based company would use the cash to fund the rollout of its DailyMed pharmacy service
to customers of Indianapolis-based health insurer WellPoint Inc. in Virginia and soon
in California. The company needed more cash, as its reserves had dwindled to $517,000 at the end of the
second quarter, down from $2.4 million a year earlier.
California-based Beckman Coulter
Inc., which makes biomedical testing instrument systems, said it is relocating its precision
plastics injection molding operation to Park 100. The move will add about 100 jobs to the 400 people the company already employs
in Indianapolis. The jobs will pay $22.30 an hour, on average. In 2007, Beckman Coulter closed its 220-employee centrifuge
development and manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, Calif., and moved operations to the Indianapolis area.
For
the 14th straight year, St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital won a Consumer Choice award from the National Research
Corp. The award identifies hospitals that health care consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in more
than 300 U.S. markets. No other Indianapolis hospitals won the award this year.
As pharmaceutical
giants re-evaluate their pipelines and seek to sell off products that no longer fit their strategies, it gives opportunities
for pharmaceutical startups. Such divestiture of pharmaceutical products will be discussed Tuesday at the Life Sciences Lunch
at the Barnes & Thornburg LLP law firm in downtown Indianapolis. The lunch will include three speakers:
Reed Tarwater, director of pharmaceutical consulting services at Carmel-based Anson Group LLC; Ron
Ellis, CEO of Endocyte Inc. in West Lafayette; and Eli Lilly and Co.‘s Pete Robins. The
lunch costs $10 per person and begins at 11:30 a.m.
Former President George H.W. Bush will come to Indianapolis
Nov. 19 to speak at a $250-per-person fund raiser for Alzheimer’s research. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Indiana
Alzheimer Disease Center at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Indiana Chapter of the
Alzheimer’s Association. Money will also go to the Deane F. Johnson Center Foundation at the University of
California at Los Angeles, a clinical trial center that supports the research of such companies as Indianapolis-based
Eli Lilly and Co. Bush’s speech, which will occur at the Indiana Roof Ballroom, is sponsored
locally by Fishers-based Ambassador Healthcare and the Central Indiana Community
Foundation. Ticket information can be found here.
California-based life science firm Beckman Coulter Inc. is moving its precision plastics injection molding operation
to the Park 100 business park on Indianapolis’ northwest side, making what it calls a multimillion-dollar investment in the
operation.
Indianapolis Star sports reporter Mark Montieth has covered his last Indiana Pacers game for the paper he dreamed about working for since he was a young child.
Effective at the end of today, Montieth,…
IBJ reported Jan. 21 that USA Diving, USA Gymnastics, USA Track & Field and U.S. Synchronized Swimming were considering relocating to the Disciples of Christ building on East Washington Street. None of the officials for those sports-sanctioning bodies would confirm…