Matthew Sause took the helm of the 4,500-person Roche Diagnostics’ North American operations in Indianapolis in November 2019—just four months before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic and much of the planet went into lockdown.
This is a partial transcript of IBJ’s annual Life Sciences Power Panel, which took place virtually on April 30 with four of Indy’s biosciences leaders: 16 Tech CEO Bob Coy, GenePace Laboratories founder Sanjay Malkani, Elanco Animal Health CEO Jeff Simmons and Indiana University School of Medicine geneticist Tatiana Foroud.
Speakers at the IBJ Life Sciences Power Panel on Friday said their organizations have largely weathered the lockdown—raising records funds, taking on huge expansions, hiring new employees and reporting higher productivity.
While the state’s rollout of eligibility for the vaccine has come under some fire, many Hoosiers have begun planning for a summer and fall free from worry, ready to resume their normal lives.
Health care practitioners and insurers are fighting over the hefty prices hospitals charge for specialty drugs to treat patients with cancer, vision loss, low white-blood-cell count and other serious diseases.
Eli Lilly and Co. told Reuters news agency that it is working closely with the FDA to address concerns about the factory in Branchburg, New Jersey, which makes Trulicity.
Julie Cranfill lost her father to COVID-19 last March. Because of pandemic restrictions, she felt there was no way to publicly remember her dad, to tell the world what a wonderful father he was.
Kelly Tingle contacted her doctor early in the pandemic, to get control of her anxious thoughts.
Former JW Marriott employee Lisette Woloszyk watched things go from bad to worse in March, as cancellations for the city’s hotels racked up alongside COVID-19 cases.
Dee Alderman’s doctors told her in November, as cases heated up, to stay home completely; her husband and son decontaminate every time they come in the house.
Three months after Dan McFeely was released from the hospital, he still struggles with shortness of breath and gets exhausted more quickly than before he caught the virus.
Jason Welch hopes his Indy Executive Cleaning will retain the customers it’s gained in the past year.
Andrea Haydon was notified by email that her job at Ratio Architects was being eliminated. She has since started her own firm.
Nolan Taylor says the online processes he and his students have to navigate get more grueling by the day.
The pandemic changed just about every aspect of Lori Casson’s job as executive director of Dayspring Center.
Nothing in Indiana University Health pulmonologist Dr. Caitriona Buckley’s 18 years of practicing medicine has even come close to the stress of this past year.
Restaurateur Ed Battista says Bluebeard and Amelia’s have gone through radical changes to keep the businesses afloat and maintain the human relationships at their core.
Three bills advancing through the Indiana General Assembly would provide tighter regulation of pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs).
The past year has been awful for Carmel-based Invesque, as COVID-19 hurt the full gamut of its health care real estate portfolio, from nursing homes and office buildings to memory-care and assisted-living centers.
A huge event that kicks off next month is hanging like a plum: the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
