IUSM-developed suicide questionnaire nudges 90% accuracy

Nearly 500 Hoosier patients in the emergency department at Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital have helped validate a screening tool for suicide, “so we can start making a massive impact in preventing these needless tragedies,” says its creator. Dr. Alexander Niculescu, a professor of psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has spent two […]... Read More

$1.3M boosts spray system that maps trees within millimeters

After doubling sales in 2021, an Indianapolis-based agtech startup is also outpacing its projections to double sales again this year. While corn and soybeans are most familiar to Hoosiers, Smart Apply Inc. focuses on high-value specialty crops, grown mostly in California. The Smart-Apply Intelligent Spray Control System is an add-on kit for conventional sprayers that […]... Read More

Glassmaker Stevanato to help shatter vial shortages

While Stevanato may be a new name to Hoosiers, the company is a global player in the pharmaceutical market and has selected Fishers to add might to its U.S. footprint with a $240 million investment. A subsidiary of Italy-based Stevanato Group, the glass container manufacturer specializes in drug containment. President for the Americas Riccardo Butta […]... Read More

Family’s $20M gift forms Notre Dame precision medicine institute

The University of Notre Dame has been working in the area of precision medicine for more than a decade, but a recent $20 million gift is adding muscle to the effort, creating “a much larger impact than our footprint would ordinarily predict,” says Dr. Paul Bohn. He’s the director of the newly established Berthiaume Institute […]... Read More

Hoosier Docs Pioneer Motorsports Medicine Advances at IMS

The Indy 500 is known as “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” but keeping drivers safe in one of the most dangerous sports—as well as the 300,000 fans watching—is a spectacle itself, powered by decades of scientific innovation. Indiana’s life sciences industry helps provide the framework for that innovation; engineers, doctors and safety experts at the […]... Read More

Soy-based Mulch, Playground Surfacing Wins Soybean Competition

From a humble soybean, a team of Boilermakers has sprouted the idea for “Smulch.” Comprised of Indiana soybeans, the rubber-like material could be used to make gardening mulch or soft playground surfacing, eliminating potentially toxic materials used in the traditional versions of both products, says Team Smulch. The student trio captured the $20,000 top prize […]... Read More

Hoosier Cancer Research Network: No Longer a ‘Best Kept Secret’

A doctor seeing patients battling cancer in the clinic is often how some of the best ideas for new treatments take root. But the doctors—typically MD-PhDs—are juggling patient care on top of intensive lab research. Finding time to execute complex clinical trials could be the death of good ideas, but for the Hoosier Cancer Research […]... Read More

Noblesville Teen Named Indiana’s Top Science Student

From winning the fifth grade science fair, to tackling college-level research and graduating high school with a beyond-perfect 4.25 GPA, Allison Maskew now has another achievement for her scientific resume. She was recently named the top science student in the state as part of the 2022 Governor’s STEM Team. Inspired by her desire to help […]... Read More

Renowned Purdue Researcher Earns Another FDA Approval  

Purdue University legend Dr. Philip Low admits he could buy a yacht and sail into the sunset, but that would ignore the call he feels to continue life-saving work: “If you can help a lot of people, I think it would be misdirected time not to do it,” he says. Men with advanced stage prostate […]... Read More