Lilly breaks ground on $4.5B foundry campus in Lebanon’s LEAP District
Officials from the Indianapolis-based drugmaker said the Lilly Medicine Foundry will help streamline the process of discovering new medicines and getting them to patients.
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Elanco ramps up debt repayment, sells future royalties of flea and tick medicine for human use
Greenfield-based Elanco Health on Monday announced the $295 million cash sale of future U.S. royalty and milestone rights for the human use of a medication typically used for dogs and cats.
Preserving young patient’s hair prompts IU surgeons’ invention
The desire to preserve a girl’s flowing hair during brain surgery led to the development of a comb-like device that could help cranial surgery patients avoid having their heads shaved.
Pricing legislation shows health reform complexities
Indiana lawmakers discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar nonprofit hospital systems is a motley and entangled task.
IU LAB announces accelerator partnerships with Gener8tor, Plug and Play
In addition, IU LAB announced that its accelerator programs will now be called IU Health Incubator at IU LAB, thanks to a $4.5 million, three-year sponsorship deal with IU Health.
Roche Diagnostics hopes new self-collection HPV test will expand screening for cervical cancer risk
The test, one of the first of its kind, is designed to reach patients who may forgo traditional screening because of lack of access, past trauma or embarrassment.
Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center expands into Carmel
The Carmel center, which opened Monday, has 17 infusion rooms, eight rooms for clinical visits, a procedure room and a pharmacy.
Lilly sues Indianapolis clinic for selling split doses of popular weight-loss drugs
The drugmaker accuses Premier Weight Loss of risking patients’ health by selling altered, unsterile versions of its blockbuster drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound.
Skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for solution
At least 14 states already cover the cost of GLP-1 medications for obesity treatment for patients on Medicaid. Indiana is not one of them.
Carmel-based health tech firm to delist from Nasdaq
Syra Health Corp. plans to offer stock on the over-the-counter market after the company failed to meet Nasdaq Stock Market’s price requirements for its shares.
Lilly adds online education, care services for Alzheimer’s to LillyDirect platform
The company said its goal is to reduce wait times for patients seeking access to specialists, creating more opportunities for early diagnosis and intervention.
Johnson & Johnson plans $55B in United States investments
Aside from building four new plants, Johnson & Johnson said that it will expand several existing sites.
Q&A with the head of Lilly manufacturing, who meticulously tracks gains in work, life
“People come together, operators, with their supervisors at 6 a.m. every morning, and they talk about what issues they have and how they propose to solve it. Those get escalated through all levels of management.”
Big Ten schools team up when it comes to cancer research
Indianapolis has been awash in Big Ten logos amid the conference’s basketball tournaments. But Indy is home to another sort of Big Ten gathering—one focused on improving cancer research.
Sen. Young: US must prevail in AI race against China
Speaking at IBJ’s Technology Power Breakfast on Monday, U.S. Sen. Todd Young of Indiana also discussed the challenge of striking a balance between encouraging innovation in artificial intelligence and developing necessary guardrails.
Zepbound raises profile of Lilly’s direct-to-consumer sales initiative
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. launched LillyDirect a little more than a year ago and has been ramping up efforts to connect directly with consumers on the platform since.
Startup Emboa Medical’s device mimics boa constrictor’s teeth to remove blood clots
The pre-clinical West Lafayette-based medical device startup is working to develop a new “microstructred” catheter to remove blood clots that cause strokes.
Elevance Health faces mix of hurdles
For Elevance Health and other big insurers, 2024 devolved into something of an annus horribilis over the year’s final weeks. And 2025 holds more challenges but also an opportunity for a rebound.
Lebanon planning board OKs design for Lilly Medicine Foundry at LEAP District
The foundry will give the pharmaceutical maker the ability to research new ways of producing medicines.
Trump casts psychiatric and weight-loss drugs as threats to children
President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to scrutinize the “threat” to children posed by antidepressants, stimulants and other common psychiatric drugs.