The founder of a Brown County startup says a recent win at a pitch competition in San Diego was particularly special. Wave Therapeutics, which is developing a smart cushion device to prevent bed sores, won the $10,000 top prize at the Women’s Venture Summit.... Read More
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.82 million Fast-Track SBIR grant to West Lafayette-based Rescue Biomedical. The company plans to use the funding to develop its technology to automatically deliver naloxone in response to an opioid overdose.... Read More
The co-founder of a major medical device manufacturer and chair of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Board of Trustees has been inducted into the Indiana Academy. Niles Noblitt launched Biomet Inc. in Warsaw - now Zimmer Biomet Holdings - in 1973.... Read More
What started out as a hobby for a radiation therapist at IU Health has turned into a fully functioning 3D printing laboratory that is helping clinicians and patients.... Read More
The current head of Roche Diagnostics North America region, which is headquartered in Indianapolis, has been promoted to oversee the Switzerland-based company’s entire diagnostics division.... Read More
A 3D bioprinter created in small town southern Indiana will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) in the coming weeks—pioneering a process that could ultimately print human transplant organs in outer space. The mission is a major step forward for Florida-based Redwire, which acquired Techshot in Greenville less than a year ago. Although […]... Read More
Some 200 Hoosiers with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia are befriending virtual pets on tablets to see if the daily interactions not only help reduce some of the symptoms of the illness, but also ease caregivers’ stress. Improving both factors could ultimately mean patients remain living at home instead of an institution setting. Richard M. […]... Read More
Between 100,000 and 200,000 people in the U.S. each year tear their ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament), an injury that commonly sidelines star athletes. While not a professional athlete, budding entrepreneur Kyle Craig knows the frustration of a sports injury keeping you from the game you love. When a sprained ankle ended his basketball season and […]... Read More
23 pairs of chromosomes are the building blocks of human biology, and BioCrossroads is using that as inspiration to recognize 23 young leaders shaping Indiana’s future life sciences sector. Called 23 PAIR (Promising Achievers in Innovation and Research), the annual program recently announced its first “class” of award winners, but organizers say its mission goes […]... Read More
Fishers-based cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing company Genezen will Thursday cut the ribbon on its $40 million manufacturing facility in the Crosspoint Business Park. The location will be used to boost the company's production.... Read More
A former EVP of strategy for BioCrossroads is the recipient of the 2022 August M. Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year Award. Nora Doherty is being recognized for her work supporting life sciences startups and managing three seed funds.... Read More
A Texas-based PCR laboratory is setting up shop in southern Indiana. HealthTrackRx says it will invest nearly $3.5 million to establish a 10,000-square-foot testing facility in Clarksville and create up to 63 jobs.... Read More
Warsaw-based Zimmer Biomet Holdings has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance of its shoulder replacement system. The Identity Shoulder System gives surgeons more options when repairing or reconstructing damaged or debilitated shoulders.... Read More
The chief executive officer of West Lafayette-based startup Novilytic says the potential expiration of the federal Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs would have a major impact on innovation in Indiana.... Read More
Indianapolis-based Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has acquired ValitaCell Ltd., an Ireland-based biotechnology company that creates analytical products and technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.... Read More
Italy-based life sciences firm Stevanato Group isn’t expected to open its manufacturing plant in Fishers until 2024, but the company is already expanding its original plan for the facility by hundreds of millions of dollars and 265 workers.... Read More
The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute has named Michele Sawyer chief financial officer. Sawyer worked for Greenfield-based Elanco Animal Health Inc., serving as executive director/general auditor of corporate audit services.... Read More
A $1 million gift is adding muscle to the University of Southern Indiana’s expertise in a segment of healthcare desperate for more workers: older adults. A recent report from the Alzheimer’s Association shows there are currently only 66 geriatricians in Indiana—fewer than one per county—and the state will also need a 37% increase in home […]... Read More
New treatments for the 1.6 million Americans with type 1 diabetes have remained frustratingly elusive for drug developers, but Neurodon classifies its potential drug as “game-changing.” The startup, based in the Purdue Research Park of Northwest Indiana, is confident it’s uncovered a new treatment that could reduce insulin dependency for millions of Americans. Neurodon says […]... Read More
Hemorrhagic strokes are notoriously devastating; only 26% of patients survive five years, and namely because the strokes are very difficult to treat. A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blockage inside a blood vessel in the brain bursts and causes bleeding inside the brain. One reason the strokes are so deadly is because doctors must often […]... Read More
