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Business Spotlight: Class UFC Gym
There’s a new and challenging way for Hoosiers to get fit… Ultimate Fighting Championship style at the UFC Gym! The first central Indiana location has just opened in Noblesville. This new concept in boutique fitness studios offers a modern twist on traditional boxing and high-intensity interval training. Owner Todd Wood explains why he opened the gym after returning from combat in Afghanistan.

Business of Health: Purdue School of Nursing
In just a matter of days, Purdue University will graduate an unusually large group of nursing students. The Class of 2019 marks a milestone for the college…it’s doubled the number of nursing students that graduated last spring. Why Purdue believes that’s the perfect medicine for the nursing shortage.

LifeOmic Develops New App
“Intermittent fasting” is a health lifestyle that has quickly gained a large following…and Indianapolis-based startup LifeOmic has created an app to help people adopt the practice. The app, called LIFE Fasting Tracker, has already surpassed 300,000 downloads. Serial entrepreneur and Indiana tech giant Don Brown explains how it works.

Catalent Sees Growth in Emerging Biologics Sector
A year-and-a-half after entering Indiana’s life-sciences environment, New Jersey-based Catalent says the emerging biologics sector is driving big investment in Bloomington. Catalent General Manager Denis Johnson joins us to explain what’s driving the growth and what’s next for the company.

Orange Corn Growing in Indiana
A startup with roots at Purdue University is launching orange corn in the U.S. and says our health stands to benefit. It’s called Professor Torbert’s Orange Corn, and it’s already on the menu at about half a dozen Indiana restaurants. It was invented by an agronomy professor at Purdue: Dr. Torbert Rocheford.

Campaign to Honor Former Butler Star
An orthodontic practice in central Indiana has launched a campaign supporting a nonprofit honoring former Butler University basketball star Andrew Smith. Gorman & Bunch Orthodontics says the Be The Change campaign aims to have up to 430 people join the bone marrow registry. Jason Bunch is spearheading the effort and says the practice wanted to support Project 44 after its founder, Andrew Smith's wife, Samantha Smith spoke at an event it hosted by the practice.

Women in Health: AIT Bioscience
No doubt Indiana has a robust life sciences industry...serving some 1,700 companies. AIT Bioscience is a research laboratory that performs analysis for biopharma drug development. Guest Host Lori LeRoy, Vice President of Communications at BioCrossroads chats with CEO Terri Pascarelli, who’s held leadership positions in life science companies---from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms---for more than 25 years.

Women in Health: AIT Bioscience
No doubt Indiana has a robust life sciences industry...serving some 1,700 companies. AIT Bioscience is a research laboratory that performs analysis for biopharma drug development. Guest Host Lori LeRoy, Vice President of Communications at BioCrossroads chats with CEO Terri Pascarelli, who’s held leadership positions in life science companies---from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms---for more than 25 years.

Inside Community Behavioral Health Academy
Hoosiers in the grip of substance use disorder are facing a shortage of professionals they can turn to for help. It’s a gap the state’s workforce development initiative Ascend Indiana aims to bridge with the newly-formed Community Behavioral Health Academy. How the collaboration could help train those to battle Indiana’s opioid epidemic.

Bosma Enterprises Empowering Workers with Impairments
When he was diagnosed with a rare degenerative eye disease as a teenager, Mark Dresen, didn’t know what his future would hold. After a six-month program at Bosma Enterprises he now works at Eli Lilly and Company's global headquarters. Mark shares how Bosma helped him and others living with vision loss.

Zimmer Biomet App Innovating Post-Op Care
After knee or hip replacement surgery, some patients are using technology to get through post-op care, instead of traditional physical therapy. In the Business of Health, learn how the Zimmer Biomet mymobility app on Apple Watch and iPhone is helping patients.

Tyler Trent's Doc on His Remarkable Impact
20-year-old Purdue superfan Tyler Trent has captured the hearts of the nation with his remarkable fight against cancer. He’s using his diagnosis to raise awareness and money for cancer research. In the Business of Health, his Riley Hospital doctor talks about Tyler’s impact.

Cook Regentec Facility Focused on Potential Breakthroughs, Collaboration
Bloomington-based Cook Regentec has opened its first facility in Indianapolis. The company has transformed an old beer warehouse into space near the high-profile 16 Tech innovation district. Part of the space will be dedicated to what the regenerative medicine therapy incubator and accelerator is calling The Collaboratory, where its scientists, engineers and product developers will partner with Indiana University School of Medicine researchers.

New AR Tools Offer Surgical Guidance
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a unique approach that allows experienced surgeons and physicians to help less-experienced doctors in war zones perform complicated procedures. In the Business of Health, see how augmented reality is making it possible.

IU Touts Impact of 'Precision Health' Challenge
Two years in, Indiana University School of Medicine Dean Jay Hess says the school's first Grand Challenges initiative is "already impacting the care we provide patients." The $120 million Precision Health effort has goals including curing one cancer and one childhood disease over the next decade through a focus on individualized medicine.

Statewide Opioid Coalition, RALI Indiana
Governor Holcomb calls for an ‘all hands-on deck’ approach to tackling the state’s opioid addiction crisis. A new statewide coalition of business and health leaders has been assembled, and Drug Czar Jim McClelland discusses the mission and implications for the business community.

Clinic Adapting Non-Invasive Skin Cancer Treatment
Carmel-based dermatology clinic, Booth Dermatology, is the first in central Indiana to use a new high-tech treatment for non-melanoma skin cancer. Dr. Sally Booth says the new non-invasive treatment requires no scalpels, no cutting or no stitches and is designed to treat the two most common forms of skin cancer.

Indiana CTSI Lands $33M Grant to Improve Health
The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute has received a $33 million boost from the National Institutes of Health. The center’s founder discusses how the funding aims to reverse Indiana’s poor state of health and the need for public’s help.

Vera Bradley Foundation Boosts Breast Cancer Research
To date, the Vera Bradley Foundation has committed more than $37 million to the IU School of Medicine in the fight against breast cancer. The director of the IU Simon Cancer Center discusses the focus of a major new research center planned for Indianapolis.

Indiana Grown Puts Members In Spotlight
The Indiana Grown initiative's signature event returned today to downtown Indianapolis. Program Manager Heather Tallman says the Monumental Marketplace has already paid dividends in its two-year history. "We had wineries that met blackberry growers that were able to buy blackberries and then distribution who came here and met different people they could start using in restaurants and grocery stores," said Tallman.

Alliance for a Healthier Indiana
In an effort to improve Indiana’s health rankings, the Alliance for a Healthier Indiana has been on the road visiting different cities. The CEOs of Community Health Network and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce discuss how conversations within communities can tackle tough topics like tobacco use, obesity, opioids and infant mortality.

IndyCar Driver and Infertility Awareness
The car that Indy500 driver Jay Howard is driving this Sunday will carry a special message. For the second year in a row, Midwest Fertility Specialists has partnered with Jay and, his wife, Courtney to promote infertility awareness and share their story of hope and determination.

Feminine Hygiene Product Wins 'Next Launch' Competition
A sustainable feminine hygiene product developed by a Fishers High School student took the $25,000 first place prize in Wednesday's "The Next Launch" competition at the Indiana IoT Lab in Fishers. The event drew business ideas from students from eight high schools throughout the Midwest. The Rob Rubin School for the Entrepreneur at Culver Academies helped organize the event.

Author: 'Community Is The Answer" to Opioids
An author who has written about the nationwide opioid epidemic says communities collaborating with "many ideas and solutions being tried together" will be key to addressing the crisis. "Dreamland: A True Tale of the Opioid Epidemic" author Sam Quinones will speak Monday at a fundraiser supporting the IU Behavioral Health facility in downtown Indianapolis.

New Bosma Enterprises Center Focuses on Life Skills
Following a $1.5 million renovation, Indianapolis-based Bosma Enterprises will Friday showcase its Center for Visionary Solutions for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The nonprofit, which serves around 1,000 clients a year, says the facility will include a living skills training apartment, lighting lab, manual skills room for plumbing and woodworking training and fitness center.

Lilly, IUPUI Launch Neighborhood Diabetes Program
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) is partnering with the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI to launch a pilot program aimed at addressing the high incidence of diabetes. The five-year, $7 million program will focus on three Indianapolis neighborhoods that Lilly says have significant health disparities and high rates of diabetes. The program builds on similar efforts Lilly has used in lower-income areas in Mexico, India and South Africa.

Eskenazi, Indiana Grown Food Effort
Eskenazi Health and Indiana Grown are teaming up to provide locally-sourced food offerings in the hospital. Eskenazi CEO Dr. Lisa Harris hopes the partnership will encourage more anchor institutions to locally source food, which could have a realimpact on the economy.

State Partners with OpenBeds to Boost Opioids Treatment
Indiana 2-1-1 is attacking the drug epidemic with a new partnership with OpenBeds. The software platform helps drug addicts immediately find a place to get treatment. In the Business of Health, the state’s FSSA Secretary shares the goals of the free and confidential service.

Women Innovating Health: CapeAble
Two moms from Fort Wayne spent five years creating specialty scarves, blankets and capes, designed to help relieve stress and provide calmness. Guest Host and Reporter Kylie Veleta talks with the co-founders of CapeAble about their unique SmartWeight technology and new manufacturing technologythey invented.

NeuroHope Lands Funding, National Recognition
NeuroHope is making big strives in the rehabilitation arena. The Indianapolis therapy clinic, started by a quadriplegic, has landed a nearly $1 million grant and is now one of 11 worldwide affiliates of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network. NeroHope's executive director and founder talks about expanding services.

Opioid Withdrawal Device Receives FDA Approval
The first device in the world to help relieve the symptoms of opioid withdrawal is now on the market. Innovative Health Solutions’ NSS2 BRIDGEwas created and is being manufactured right here in Indiana. Inside INdiana Business Reporter Kylie Veleta tells us about the one hurdle keeping many from being able to use it.

Examining Potential Side Effects of a CVS/Aetna Merger
Leaders from the private sector and academia are weighing in on a proposal to merge giants in health care retail and insurance. Plans call for CVS Health Corp. (NYSE: CVS) to acquire Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) in a deal valued at $69 billion. Indianapolis-based OurHealth co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Ben Evans says the deal is characteristic of "this impending collision of insurers and providers," where insurers and health care providers are competing for the patient.

Ascus Biosciences Pioneering an Emerging Science
Indianapolis tech start-up Ascus is pioneering an emerging science, Endomicrobial Ecology, that uses a natural approach to improve animal health and performance. It’s being driven by former Elanco VP of Global Research and Development William Weldon. Endomicrobial Ecology harvests the natural microbiota that already exists in an animal’s system. The research is driving the science behind Ascus’ first product which will launch in Argentina in 2018.

'Catalyst' Caine Wins Watanabe Award
Marion County Public Health Department Director Virginia Caine is this year's Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year. BioCrossroads presented the annual award this morning at the Life Sciences Summit in Indianapolis. The organization calls Caine an "ardent voice for public health and access to medical care for the disadvantaged."

Intern Program Targets Students with Disabilities
The Eskenazi Health Foundation has received a Lilly Endowment grant to expand an internship program for students with physical and sensory disabilities. In the Business of Health, Barb Lewis discusses how this paid internship gives students a unique college to career program.

Whitestown Welcomes $50M Facility
Pennsylvania-based global health care company AmerisourceBergen cut the ribbon on its new $50 million distribution facility, which could employ up to 150 people. Company officials say they are responsible for producing and distributing nearly one-third of the country's pharmaceuticals.

Biomedical Scientists Boost
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a $25 million grant to fund the INCITE program, a collaboration among IU School of Medicine, Indiana Biosciences Research Institute and Eli Lilly and Co. The initiative aims to attract biomedical scientists to enhance research and education and strengthen the state's life sciences sector.

Whitestown Welcomes $50M Facility
The chief executive officer of Pennsylvania-based AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp. says the company picked Whitestown for a nearly $50 million investment, in part, because of the work force it will be able to attract there. The global health care company cut the ribbon this morning on the distribution facility, which Steven Collis says could ultimately employ up to 150.

Health Commissioner Discusses Making Opioid Overdose Medication Available Without Prescription
Tackling overdoses head-on. A lifesaving medication that can reverse opioid overdoses is now available without a prescription. State Health Commissioner Dr. Jerome Adams discusses the importance of Naloxone.

16 Tech Announces First Leader
Bob Coy has been named first president and chief executive officer of 16 Tech Community Corp. Coy most recently served as CEO of Ohio-based venture development organization CincyTech, which pumped more than $680 million into 70 different startups during his 11 years at the helm. Coy says his top priorities will include construction projects and the continued push for top interdisciplinary talent The 60-acre innovation community located near IUPUI.

Biomedical Innovation Center Director Talks Growth
The Indiana Center for Biomedical Innovation has been a huge success with 11 startup companies under one roof creating an ecosystem for entrepreneurship, technology development and commercialization. The center’s director discusses its growth and plans for expansion.

Partnership Battling Cancer as More Than Friends
Helping breast cancer patients with everything they need is getting easier, thanks to a new partnership between Komen Central Indiana and What Friends Do. Leadership from both organizations discuss the recently launched peer-to-peer online network “More Than Friends.”

St. Vincent to Open 'Long-Time Dream'
St. Vincent Health this week will take the wraps off of an $8 million accommodation space for families of extended-stay patients. Nancy Frick with the St. Vincent Foundation says the St. Vincent House will give patient families a place to eat, do laundry, and find "mutual support" with others. It replaces the Marten House Hotel, which closed in January.

St. Vincent's $13M Training Center
St. Vincent Health has broken ground on a $13 million project that will benefit current and future health care workers. In the Business of Health, Barb Lewis talks with a hospital exec to learn more about what the William Nasser Healthcare Education and Simulation Center has to offer.

Lilly Details $850M U.S. Plans
Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) has detailed plans to pump $850 million into its U.S. operations this year. That includes a new $85 million expansion of the company's Trulicity device assembly operations. The drugmaker says the investment is being driven by strong demand and its growing pipeline of potential cancer, pain and diabetes treatments.

Collaborations Spurring IU Med School Evansville
A key player in the ongoing IU Med School Evansville project calls it a "one-of-a-kind partnership" that will boost residency opportunities and economic development. IU Assistant VP Kirk White says four southwest Indiana hospitals are working together instead of competing.

St. Vincent Begins Work on $13M Training Center
St. Vincent Health has broken ground on a project it says will benefit current and future health care workers throughout the Midwest. The $13.6 million William Nasser Healthcare Education and Simulation Center will house classrooms and simulation spaces including an operating room, delivery room and intensive care unit. The center honors Nasser, who St. Vincent says is known by many as Indiana's "Father of Cardiology."

Hospital Collaboration Fueling IU Med School Project
One of the key players in the ongoing Indiana University Med School project in Evansville calls it a "one-of-a-kind partnership" that will boost residency opportunities and economic development. IU Assistant Vice President For Strategic Partnerships Kirk White says four southwest Indiana hospitals "working together instead of in competition" will bring better health care to Hoosiers. m

Lash & Brow Design Helping Burn Victims
Lash & Brow Design Co. in Carmel is partnering with Indy’s largest hair salon to raise money for the Hoosier Burn Camp, which provides life-changing experiences for burn victims. The owner of Lash & Brow discusses why this cause is near and dear to her heart in the Business of Health.

New IBRI Study is 'Essence of Big Data'
The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute in Indianapolis is bringing together several big industry names for a major study on how type 2 diabetes varies in different patients. Inside INdiana Business talks to Chief Executive Officer David Broecker about what he calls a "first-of-its-kind" partnership that involves Eli Lilly and Co., Roche Diagnostics Corp., the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine.

New IBRI Study is 'Essence of Big Data'
The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute in Indianapolis is bringing together several big industry names for a major study on how type 2 diabetes varies in different patients. Inside INdiana Business talks to Chief Executive Officer David Broecker about what he calls a "first-of-its-kind" partnership that involves Eli Lilly and Co., Roche Diagnostics Corp., the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Brown Gift to Spark 'Exciting' Science
Tech entrepreneur and Interactive Intelligence founder Don Brown says he hopes his $30 million gift to the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis will "give us a focal point in what I consider the most exciting area in all of science." The gift will establish the Brown Center for Immunotherapy.

IBRI Hires European Bioscience Giant
The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute has hired the man who will set the agenda for the research and innovation that comes out of the center. Rainer Fischer, who has been named chief scientific and innovation officer, most recently led the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology in Germany.

Progress Continues at Biosciences Research Institute
Leaders from the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute believe a recent $750,000 grant secured by one of its researchers could help spark other activity in the future. The funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will support Teresa Mastracci's work involving cell regeneration in Type 1 diabetes progression. Inside INdiana Business talks to Mastracci and Director of External Affairs and Communications at IRBI, Christy Denault.

New Study Reveals Economic Impact of Opioid & Tobacco Epidemics
A new study shows opioid and tobacco addiction epidemics have cost Indiana billions annually in healthcare expenses and lost productivity. Barbara Lewis sits down with the executives of the Fairbanks Foundation and Fairbanks School of Public Health.

Bart Peterson Talks Irsay YMCA
The CityWay YMCA in downtown Indianapolis is celebrating a major donation and new name. In honor of the gift from Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, the facility will be known as the Irsay Family YMCA and bear the team's horseshoe logo. Eli Lilly and Co. Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs Bart Peterson talks to Inside INdiana Business about Irsay and the impact his gift will have on Marion County.

Dig IN Talks Economic Benefit of Eating Local
An event this weekend in Indianapolis will bring chefs and producers from throughout the state together to shine a spotlight on Indiana's food industry. Dig IN's annual Taste of Indiana will feature dozens of restaurants, breweries and wineries partnering with chefs and farmers to create a variety of prepared dishes and beverages.

United Way of Central Indiana Lands $7 Million Grant
The United Way of Central Indiana was one of four recipients nationwide awarded a $7 million grant from the Social Innovation Fund. The money will be matched by UWCI and selected organizations in Central Indiana for a total of over $20 million for the Great Families 2020 initiative. United Way of Central Indiana President and CEO Ann Murtlow and Christie Gillespie, vice-president of Community Impact at UWCI talked to Inside INdiana Business about how the grant will impact families.

IU Health Growing International Reach With Medical Tourism Program Expansion
IU Health is expanding its reach internationally with its growing medical tourism program. The director of the International Patient Services Program recently returned from China, where he promoted services like individualized cancer therapy.

Long-Term Rehab Center Now Open in Indianapolis
Chris Leeuw was left paralyzed from the neck down after a kayaking accident, but after aggressive therapy in Utah, he left rehab walking and independent, and made it his mission to bring that kind of long-term rehab center to Indiana. He talks about his vision for NeuroHope, which is now open in Indianapolis.

Community Health Partnership to Form New Company
Community Health Network in Indianapolis is partnering with Chicago-based VillageMD to form a new health care company. Primaria Health LLC will provide services including data analysis, medication management and behavioral health programs. Primaria CEO Doug Stratton and VillageMD CEO Tim Barry talk about the new venture.

Dogs Trained to Alert Diabetics of Blood Sugar Changes
Indianapolis-based Alert Service Dogs is a national provider of trained Diabetic Alert Dogs (DAD's). President Janalee Gallagher talks about the company, which trains dogs to detect change in blood sugars and alert diabetics to blood sugar changes.