Life Sciences

Orthopedic implant manufacturer BioPoly LLC says it has received a Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its BioPoly Knee System. ... Read More

Eli Lilly and Co. says it will invest an additional $1.6 billion in a new drug manufacturing site in Boone County, bringing the total amount to $3.7 billion. Lilly said the expanded manufacturing capacity would create 200 more jobs.... Read More

State and local officials will join executives from Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) on Monday to break ground on the company's manufacturing plants in the LEAP Innovation and Research District in Boone County.... Read More

New Jersey-based Catalent Inc. (NYSE: CTLT) expects productivity issues at three of its facilities, including one in Bloomington, will "materially and adversely impact" its fiscal third quarter financial results, the company said Friday. ... Read More

Indianapolis-based VisionTech Angels has invested $242,000 in Adipo Therapeutics, a pre-clinical stage company seeking to transform the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity through a subcutaneous injection.... Read More

Two Indianapolis powerhouses are joining forces to improve how doctors diagnose Alzheimer's disease. Roche Diagnostics and Eli Lilly and Co. are working to create a routine blood test that could help spot the disease earlier.... Read More

Zionsville-based GeniPhys has completed a $6 million Series A round of funding, the company announced Wednesday. GeniPhys has developed a material known as Collymer, a highly-purified form of collagen that is used to support tissue generation.... Read More

Germany-based Evonik will Wednesday break ground on the previously-announced $220 million expansion of its pharmaceutical production facility in Lafayette. The expansion is expected to create more than 80 jobs by the end of 2025.... Read More

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, is looking for cities that can help design biomedical products, enhance clinical trials and bring new health products to market.... Read More

Shares of Elanco Animal Health dropped 4% on Wednesday to a new all-time low after Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the company’s credit rating. Moody’s action pushed Elanco’s credit rating further into “junk bond” territory.... Read More

BioCrossroads, Indiana’s initiative to grow the life sciences sector, has added two new people to the organization’s leadership team. ... Read More

The Lebanon Plan Commission voted unanimously Monday to recommend approval of Eli Lilly and Co.’s development plan for two manufacturing facilities in Boone County. The proposed $2.1 billion Lilly manufacturing campus north of Lebanon will...... Read More

A medical partnership involving some of Indiana’s biggest universities has received nearly $38 million to continue its work taking laboratory and clinical discoveries and translating them into treatments for patients. ... Read More

Suicides are climbing faster among young people than adults, triggering alarm bells that “what we’re doing isn’t working,” says University of Notre Dame psychologist Theodore Beauchaine. He’s co-leading a mission to reinvent teen suicide prevention efforts.... Read More

An Australian biotech company that has its U.S. headquarters in Fishers has received additional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Telix Pharmaceuticals says its lead prostate cancer imaging product, Illuccix, is now authorized to...... Read More

Dr. Malaz Boustani, an esteemed brain doctor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, is haunted by the fact that he didn’t identify his own father’s Alzheimer’s disease. “I think I’m a great brain doctor—and I missed it,” he says. ... Read More

A supply chain management company headquartered in Singapore is establishing operations at the Warsaw Technology Park. Mentor Media plans to invest nearly $7 million to occupy a portion of a shell building and create nearly 50 jobs over the next three years.... Read More

The IU School of Medicine has terminated a research project involving surgery on live pigs after officials discovered the laboratory workers were using expired surgical supplies. It was unclear exactly what the medical school was researching under the project.... Read More

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the U.S., but more than half of the cases are undiagnosed. An Indianapolis startup has its sights set on commercializing high-tech contact lenses that could diagnose glaucoma and delay its progression. ... Read More

Fishers-based Recovery Force Health said Thursday it has closed on a $1.25 million round of funding. The company has developed an FDA-cleared wearable compression device for hospital patients designed to prevent deep vein thrombosis. ... Read More