IU unveils architectural design plan for IU LAB at 16 Tech
The five-story, 150,000 square-foot building will be built next to the Herron School of Art and Design’s Eskenazi Fine Arts Center on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis.
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Power-lifting nurse helps Franciscan center focuses on prevention, wellness for cancer and cardiac disease
The Franciscan Healthy Living Center, which opened in 2020, is designed to help those who’ve been through cancer, heart disease, surgery or other serious conditions improve their health factors, including diet, fitness, sleep and mental health.
Lilly says weight loss pill has vast opportunity
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker sees orforglipron as a potential global breakthrough treatment for weight loss and other conditions because it comes in pill form, not an injection.
Reports: Lilly eyes Houston for new $5.9B manufacturing facility
Lilly in February announced plans to add four U.S. manufacturing sites at yet-to-be-determined sites as part of a roughly $27 billion investment.
Indianapolis-based Prevounce Health on navigating tariff uncertainty
The med-tech company sources its products from a Chinese manufacturer that is one of very few in the world capable of producing cellular-connected medical devices.
Novo to sell Wegovy at $199 a month as copycat availability ends
On Thursday, pharmacies were supposed to stop making the copies of the medications that had become popular during shortages of the brand-name drugs.
Once-hyped IU Health People Mover fades into oblivion
IU Health’s People Mover is unusual—or it certainly was at the time it was conceived—because of its use of public right of way.
Novo Nordisk inks $2.2B deal to develop weight-loss pill to rival Lilly’s orforglipron
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co. announced promising results from a large study of its own tablet in diabetes patients last month.
Zimmer Biomet ‘cementless’ partial knee implant makes Indiana debut
The Zimmer Biomet Oxford Cementless Partial Knee System received FDA approval in November, although the implant has been used in more than 300,000 procedures outside the U.S.
UPDATE: Roche Diagnostics to invest up to $550M in Indianapolis, adding hundreds of local jobs
The Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostics giant said the move will establish the Indianapolis-based Roche Diagnostics site as a hub for manufacturing of its continuous glucose monitoring system.
‘Innovation at every stage’: Lilly to invest up to $250M in broadened alliance with Purdue University
The extended partnership holds the potential to be the largest industry-academic agreement of its kind in the United States, Purdue President Mung Chiang said.
Lilly shuffles roles amid growth in U.S. investment, diabetes and obesity treatments
The company has announced more than $50 billion in new U.S. manufacturing investments since 2020.
Lilly chief scientist talks drugmaker’s new $4.5B campus, recruiting and innovation
Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Daniel Skovronsky talked with the IBJ about his hopes for the Lilly Medicine Foundry, which the Indianapolis-based drugmaker broke ground on this week.
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.
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.