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• Colorado BioScience Association Announces Nine New Board Members

  - 2008-05-02

  DENVER -- Nine new board members have been elected to the Colorado BioScience Association CBSA 40-member Board of Directors. The announcement is made by Chris Shapard, CBSA Deputy Director, who says the election occurred at the Association's recent 2008 All-Member Meeting. Newly elected CBSA board members include: Jim Chrisman,...

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• INCUBATOR CEO CHOCK-FULL OF PLANS

  - 2007-11-11

  Duncan Stewart is a blur of ideas. He has dozens he wants to carry out. One, for example, would be a boot camp for wounded veterans who want to start their own businesses. Another would be a second location for the incubator that would cater in part...

  Tags: aerospace, Air Force, Biotechnology, Entrepreneurship, Government, Manufacturing, tenant, University of Colorado

• Redesigning Colorado's economy

  - 2005-09-09

  Ten years after the U.S. Congress marked the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora for closure, a 20-year, $4.3 billion redevelopment of the 578-acre site could position Colorado as a major biotechnology hub. Congress announced in 1995 during base realignment and closure season that Army operations at...

  Tags: Biotechnology, Colorado, University of Colorado

• Specific Part of Brain Says 'Cool It' When in Control of Stressful Events, CU-Boulder Study Finds.

  - 2005-08-24

  Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 24 AScribe Newswire -- Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder believe they have an answer as to why some people can quickly bounce back from a terrible event, while some seem to never recover....

  Tags: Biotechnology, University of Colorado

• UColo Receives Keck Grant.

  - 2005-05-01

  Thomas Perkins and Robert Batey of the University of Colorado, Boulder, have been awarded a $75,000 grant for A Widely Applicable, Highly Sensitive RNA-Based Biosensor from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. These competitive seed grants aim to fill a critical missing link ...

  Tags: Biotechnology, University of Colorado

• Novel Laboratory Technique Identifies High Levels of Pathogens in Therapy Pool.

  - 2005-03-14

  Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., March 14 AScribe Newswire -- A research team using a novel genetic cloning and sequencing technique has identified a surprisingly high number of airborne pathogens in a Midwest therapy pool, pointing to the need for closer scrutiny...

  Tags: Biotechnology, PRODUCTIVITY, RNA, San Diego State University, technique, therapy, University of Colorado

• 3 areas selected to anchor growth

  - 2005-03-12

  Colorado Springs will look to its airport, downtown and university as anchors for economic growth in coming years, economic development officials said Friday. All three anchors are needed to support local businesses that sell products outside the city, providing jobs and generating income for local residents, said...

  Tags: aviation, Biotechnology, downtown, HARDWARE, Semiconductors, Strategy, University of Colorado

• Aurora Points to Increasing Role of Technology Transfer Programs toward Successful Biomedical Business Development

  - 2005-02-23

  AURORA, Colo. -- The nation's largest biomedical corporations are increasingly relying on technology transfer at major research universities to support the "fail early, fail often" mentality it takes to be successful in the biomedical marketplace. That's what business executives at a recent panel event hosted by the Aurora Economic...

  Tags: biomedical, biotechnology, HEALTHCARE, technology, University of Colorado

• Avigen exclusively licenses technology of chronic pain.(anitinflammatory agents)

  - 2004-01-01

  Avigen, Inc. (Alameda, CA) has exclusively licensed rights to the treatment of chronic pain using anti- inflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 10 (IL-10), from the University of Colorado (Boulder, CO). Avigen also expanded its existing sponsored research agreement with the University of Colorado to further the...

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• Health Official Lauds Colorado for Scientific 'Firepower'.

  - 2003-02-14

  By Marsha Austin, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 14--Only creative visionaries will catch the next wave of scientific discovery and emerge as leaders in medical technology, the director of the National Institutes of Health told a gathering in ...

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