Indy Pharma Company to be Acquired

Indianapolis-based Acacia Pharma Group will soon be under new ownership. Our partners at the Indianapolis Business Journal report the company is set to be acquired by Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc. in New Jersey in a deal valued at nearly $104 million. ... Read More

Startup Targets Stage Zero Cancer, Because ‘Early is Good’

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

Purdue High-Tech Horse Slicker Takes Aim at Market

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

IU Startup Secures Licensing Deal

A Bloomington-based startup founded by two Indiana University chemistry professors has inked a deal with Massachusetts-based Waters Corp. (NYSE: WAT). Megadalton Solutions will license to Waters its charge detection mass spectrometry technology, which can be used in the development of cell and gene therapies.... Read More

On Target Labs Partners with French Company

West Lafayette-based On Target Laboratories Inc. has announced a clinical research and product development collaboration with Mauna Kea Technologies in Paris. On Target says the partnership aims to improve the identification and diagnosis of pulmonary cancers.... Read More

Stevanato Inks Deal for Vaccine Vial Manufacturing

A subsidiary of Italy-based Stevanato Group (NYSE: STVN) has entered into an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority that will expand its planned manufacturing capacity in Fishers. The company says the deal, valued at up to $95 million, will produce vials to be used for current and future vaccine needs.... Read More

BioCrossroads Celebrates 20 Year Milestone

BioCrossroads, the state's initiative to grow and invest in life sciences, is marking 20 years since its launch. The public-private collaboration has supported the state's existing research and corporate strengths, while encouraging new business development through three venture capital funds and more than 500 startups.... Read More

Purdue Professor Granted $1M for Swine Fever Test

A team of Purdue University researchers are working to develop a rapid, pen-side test for African swine fever, a highly contagious swine disease in the Dominican Republic. Mohit Verma, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue, has been awarded a $1 million grant for the project.... Read More

Record Revenue Helps OrthoPediatrics Narrow Loss

Warsaw-based OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Nasdaq: KIDS) is reporting a full-year net loss of $16.2 million in 2021, compared to a loss of $33 million the previous year. Despite the loss, the pediatric orthopedic device manufacturer says it hit record annual revenue of $98 million.... Read More

Lilly Drug Gains Additional FDA Approval

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded another approval for Jardiance developed by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) and Boehringer Ingelheim in Germany. The company says Jardiance has been approved to treat adults with any type of heart failure.... Read More

$34M Gift Launches Youth Psych Center, Attracts Researcher to Evansville

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

Pharma Leads $500 Million Investment Total in 2021

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 Raises $6M to ‘Make Everyone an App Builder’

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