New Device Clears the Air for ER Docs
Seconds matter in the emergency room, and it was having those critical seconds slip away that sparked the idea for a new medical device to help trauma patients breathe. ... Read More
Kylie Veleta
Device Aims to Decode Drug Overdoses
Law enforcement and the medical industry struggle to keep pace with the ever-changing landscape of designer drugs—those created in underground, illegal labs. When patients arrive in emergency rooms...... Read More
Columbus Student Claims Science Award for Governor’s STEM Team
Recently named the best high school science student in Indiana, Ujwala Pamidimukkala remembers watching heart surgery documentaries as a young girl in kindergarten. ... Read More
Indiana Analyzes 15 Years of Capital, Sets Stage for Future
Indiana life sciences leaders believe a “proof of concept” is being delivered to the sector’s capital market. Determined to shed Indiana’s stigma as a venture capital “flyover state,” leaders of th...... Read More
Chao Center Becomes PGC, Now Open for Business
A West Lafayette contract drug manufacturing company is relaunching itself, and says it’s now poised to serve its sweet spot in the market: helping early-stage drug discovery companies prepare phar...... Read More
agBOT Challenge Highlights Need to ‘Plug In’
“Shark Tank” for agriculture is how an Indiana farmer describes the robotics competition he created, which is attracting teams from as far away as Canada to duke it out in a Hoosier cornfield next ...... Read More
Heart-Monitoring Device Scores Tech Award
A technology that could alert doctors that a patient is at risk of sudden cardiac death took a top prize at the recent 18th Annual Mira Awards, presented by Indiana’s tech initiative TechPoint. Arr...... Read More
Africa is First Stop on Purdue’s Food Mission to Mars
Although Mars and Africa are two distinctly different places, they share some common ground: food scarcity. It’s a problem Purdue University food scientists are addressing both on the red planet an...... Read More
Roche Works to Move Tests Out of Labs
Doctors and patients alike can relate to the waiting game for lab test results; the doctor needs clarification or confirmation of a diagnosis, orders a test and everybody waits. Assuming results ar...... Read More
GE Aims to Hire Thousands of Women
GE is unleashing a business plan that focuses on numbers of a different sort: women employees. The company is launching a strategy called Balance the Equation, which aims to have a 50:50 representa...... Read More