The state’s largest healthcare system has announced sweeping plans for “a renewed commitment to price affordability.” Indiana’s high hospital costs have become a hot topic after a recent study from the RAND Corp. found that Indiana ranked the highest for hospital costs among the 25 states that were analyzed. On the heels of announcing a […]... Read More
When her grandmother died of cancer, Dr. Thakshila Liyanage vowed to give doctors a better weapon to find cancer early. “If early diagnosis was possible, she should have had a much longer life,” says Liyanage. She devoted her studies, and now a business endeavor, to creating a tool that could accurately diagnose cancer at Stage […]... Read More
Combining the power of Purdue University engineers and veterinarians, a technology with “a very clear clinical need” is aiming to take a bite out of the electronic textile industry. Clothes that are embedded with electronic functions to monitor various health signals are becoming increasingly common, but this innovation gives the user the power of customization, […]... Read More
One of the largest gifts in Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) history will address what local medical experts call a desperate shortage of care in the Evansville region—youth mental health. Evansville natives Bill and Mary O’Daniel Stone recently gifted the school $34 million to create the Stone Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. IUSM […]... Read More
While the pandemic provided a business backdrop unlike any other in history, Indiana’s life sciences industry saw “extraordinary” growth in 2021, says the Indiana Economic Development Corp. Twenty-three life sciences companies in the state committed to investing over $500 million in 2021, and the pharmaceutical sector led the charge, accounting for $381 million of that […]... Read More
Lumavate’s line of work is still a surprise to many business leaders, says Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Cox. The Carmel-based tech startup, which recently closed a $6 million funding round, helps businesses build their own apps—no need to know code or use an IT developer—and “still a large number of people don’t even know that’s […]... Read More
While emerging from general anesthesia may seem a straightforward process, helping patients—both healthy and with complications—to “Open Your Eyes” is the mission of OYE Therapeutics. Delayed emergence from anesthesia is costly to both the patient and the healthcare system; one study showed the condition causes 32,000 deaths each year and $9.3 billion annually in added […]... Read More
Industry experts say Indiana is emerging as a powerful hub for nuclear medicine, and the most recent fuel to be added to the fire is Telix Pharmaceuticals earning approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to launch its first commercial product. The radiopharmaceuticals sector, also known as nuclear medicine, is gathering momentum in central […]... Read More
A recent DNA discovery means four Hoosier high school students are published scientists at the young age of 18. While COVID wreaked havoc on students’ senior years, Noblesville High School teacher Caitlyn Foye got creative with the closures and brought cutting-edge research to her classroom. The students uncovered four new gene sequences—a discovery so rare […]... Read More
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a devastating form of breast cancer that has left researchers scrambling to find weapons against its high recurrence rate, lower survival rate than other forms of the disease and confusion about how to best treat it—and Indiana is leading the charge. As a nerve center for TNBC research, the […]... Read More
