Daniel Lee

Riley Children’s Foundation names new CEO

Riley Children’s Foundation, amid its largest ever fundraising campaign, on Thursday named local philanthropic leader Courtney Roberts as its new president and CEO.... Read More

Animal-health startup BiomEdit advances poultry antibody, lands $20M in funding, grants

Greenfield-based BiomEdit says that its engineered bacteria product to protect poultry from a common disease is in its final regulatory phase and that the animal-health startup also landed $18.4 million in new funding and more than $1.7 million in grants.... Read More

Fairbanks Foundation awards $13M to create new statewide apprenticeship program

The Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation on Wednesday announced it awarded $12.9 million in grants to eight Indiana organizations working to develop career training through a new statewide apprenticeship initiative.... Read More

IU still dealing with weekslong website outages

“The IU web server is unable to deliver the page you requested,” a message in part read at cancer.iu.edu.... Read More

IU School of Medicine opens new $230M education and research building

With the new building comes the relocation of the IU School of Medicine’s primary classroom and education facility from its longtime home on the IU Indianapolis campus to be closer to the main IU Health teaching hospital, still under construction.... Read More

Kimball’s Indy medical solutions unit swings for fences with new plant

Kimball Electronics’ new Indianapolis site for contract manufacturing for the medical industry is big. How big? Victory Field, home of the Indianapolis Indians, would just about fit perfectly inside the company’s new 307,000-square-foot facility.... Read More

Lilly acquires cardiovascular genetic medicine company for up to $1.3B

Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. said Tuesday it is acquiring Boston-based Verve Therapeutics, a Nasdaq-traded company focused on genetic medicines for cardiovascular disease, in a deal worth up to $1.3 billion.... Read More

Indianapolis-based startup leans on connections to treat brain diseases

Syndeio Biosciences sees burgeoning potential to treat mental health and cognitive conditions, including Alzheimer’s and depression, with therapies that target the almost countless minuscule brain synapses that give people the ability to think and function.... Read More

Community Health Network looks to save $10M this year by using AI tools

Indianapolis-based hospital system Community Health Network said it is on track to meet its goal this year of saving $10 million in costs and streamlining care through increased use of artificial intelligence, or AI.... Read More

Construction on $4.3B downtown IU Health hospital complex nears halfway mark

Indiana University Health said this week that its $4.3 billion downtown hospital complex, which will comprise 2.5 million square feet, is on budget and schedule as it approaches the halfway mark in its construction.... Read More