728_ CID4: Colorado Institute for Drug, Device & Diagnostic Development 
"CID4 is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that's been formed to create jobs in the State of Colorado specifically in the life science industry. The institute was created to meet a need, the so called 'valley of death' between discovery of a promising technology and its actual application with people. That is a funding gap that has occurred over the last few years that makes it difficult to get companies started on technologies that are going to lead to new cures and/or medical devices," said Richard Duke, President and CEO of CID4. Larry interviewed Richard along with Kevin Smith, Exec VP and COO along with Rick Silva, Director of Technology Transfer, Anschutz Medical Campuses (Fitzsimons) about this exciting new venture. Larry asked what can we expect to see in the future? "Some of the activities we envision ourselves being involved in are essentially looking at technology across the state both from the research institutions as well as from individual entrepreneurs that have the greatest potential to lead to cures in a reasonable amount of time. The real critical part to understand is that the average drug takes 12 years and $200 million to develop. Everyone wants to know how we can be more successful in terms of bringing those products along. So the major goal of the Institute is to identify the most promising technologies in Colorado that are available for further development and then to guide that development process in a more cost efficient and time efficient manner.' Listen for more details...
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Because the pending bill on our ‘HealthCare System’ will have such a huge impact on all sizes of companies and to all of us personally, we decided to give you a link to the person we know and respect in the area of health care research, Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE. Congress did not have time to study the proposals, we didn't either! Congress is in recess now; the voting will come up again this fall. As you all know, there has been a great deal of discussion on this topic. Not all of it, but most of the rhetoric was based on what side of the isle they came from. This is too important of an issue to make decisions based on partisanship. Here’s the information you
need to begin developing an informed opinion. There are hundreds of links you can find online. We invite you to post your thoughts on Dr. Feld’s blog as well as w3w3.com blog.







