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BioSciences Colorado Pillar

743_ Colorado State Government Talks about the BioScience Pillar 
The BioWest Conference and Expo has earned the reputation of being the Rocky Mountain region’s preferred venue for visiting with researchers discussing their newest discoveries and meeting founders of the area’s most innovative and promising bioscience start-up companies. The conference included a panel on Investor Relations For Life science Companies (panel included Charles Duncan, Managing Director, Senior Biotechnology Analyst for JMP Securities; Joe Turner, former CFO, Myogen; Derek Cole, Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, ARCA Biopharma); The Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor Conference with three company presentations; The State Of Colorado - Inside Look at the Economy and Economic Development with Don Elliman, Chief Operating Officer, State of Colorado Don Marostica, Director, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade and moderated by Richard Duke, President and CEO of CID4; Tech Transfer Posters; and the Annual Awards Dinner (winners included: Lifetime Achievement - Thomas Cech, a Nobel Laureate and director of the University of Colorado at Boulder's Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology; Lifetime Achievement - Leslie Leinwand, a CU professor and chief scientific officer of CU' Boulder's Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology, co-founded Myogen; Company of the Year - Accera Inc., a Broomfield-based drug development company, launched a prescription drug that fights Alzheimer's disease; Rising Star - MiRagen Therapeutics Inc., founded in 2007, develops microRNA-based drugs to treat cardiovascular and muscle disease; Volunteer of the Year - Dan Mitchell, a Boulder-based Sequel Venture Partners partner, serves on the Colorado BioScience Association board; Partner of the Year, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade; Educator of the Year, Corinne Carlson; Erin Silver was named the Chairman's Award Recipient ...listen for more...
Related Links: BioWest Conference || BioWest Photos || CBSA Home || BioScience Channel || Keywords: BioWest, CBSA, Richard Duke, Don Elliman, Don Marostica, Colorado BioScience Association, BioScience, Medical Devices > Channel: Bio 20618076 bytes 11/23/09 LISTEN

CID4: Colorado Institute for Drug, Device & Diagnostic Development

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...
Related Links: CID4 Home || CU Tech Transfer Office || CU Tech Transfer Channel || Mastering Change || Keywords: CID4, Colorado Institute for Drug Device & Diagnostic Development, Richard Duke, Kevin Smith, Rick Silva, CU TTO, Change > Channel: CU TTO > 11442720 bytes - 10/26/09 LISTEN

Delivering value to its primary internal and external constituents and stakeholders

708_ Delivering value to its primary internal and external constituents and stakeholders
The mission of the CU Technology Transfer Office is to aggressively pursue, protect, package, and license to business the intellectual property generated from the research enterprise and to serve faculty, staff, and students seeking to create such intellectual property. The entire CU TTO team has done a very excellent job in in light of the tough economy. Larry Nelson stopped in the CU Technology Transfer Office in Boulder to get a fiscal year end update from David Allen, Associate VP for Technology Transfer and Tom Smerdon, Director Of Licensing & New Business Development. Start-up Company Sustainability: In the last five years, 51 companies have been formed based on CU intellectual property. Of the 51 companies from the last five years, 44 are operational as either stand alone or subsidiary/merged companies. Here's a dashboard look at what was reported for fiscal year 2008 -09: invention disclosures (best year yet); patent applications (preformed well, even with slight downward pressure on the speculative patent budget); exclusive licensing transactions (best year yet) nonexclusive licenses (only one software product producing multiple licenses); start-ups (continued performance at nationally prominent level)Proof of Concept (POC) program (considerable investment in start-ups and maturation of individual technologies); overall revenue (expected low revenue, worsened by recession); business community engagement (great support from Colorado’s technology-centric, entrepreneurial community) support from the CU Administration (strategic importance maintained); Net-net: in a challenging fiscal environment, TTO managed well, and focused on continuing to deliver value to its primary internal and external constituents and stakeholders. There's more...
Related Links: CU Tech Transfer Office || CU TTO Channel || CU TTO Annual Report || Mastering Change || Keywords: David Allen, Tom Smerdon, CU Tech Transfer Office, Licensing, New Business Development, Start-up Company Sustainability, Business Development >> Channel: CU TTO >> Bytes= 14238305 > - 8/24/09 LISTEN

Repairing the HealthCare System - Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE

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.
NEWS FLASH:  WASHINGTON, July 31, 2009 - Health Care Bill Passes Key Committee - Democrats Pushed Legislation Through House Energy and Commerce Committee, Clearing Way for September Showdown... Pay attention, this is about your medical care!
Related Links: Repairing HealthCare || Dr. Stanley Feld Blog || You Tube - Atlas Shrugged || Brad Feld Blog || Mastering Change || Keywords: HealthCare System, Stanley Feld, Congress, Atlas Shrugged, Blog > Channel: News 8/3/09 Follow the Links - Read More...

Introducing the Greener Denver Business Program

695_ Introducing the Greener Denver Business Program - Going green brings in the green 
CORE partners with the Denver Office of Economic Development in creation of Greener Denver Business, a new training and support program for local businesses interested in “going green.” Greener Denver Business takes an innovative approach to supporting small to mid-sized business owners in their efforts to go green. Larry sat down with Graham Russell, Executive Director of Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy (CORE) and Betsy Long, Director of Education Programs for CORE and who is coordinating the efforts for the support program CORE and the Denver Office of Economic Development are putting on together. They answered a series of questions including: How did Greener Denver Business come into existence? What is CORE’s role in the program? What are the benefits for participating businesses? Why should businesses invest in going green during an economic downturn? How can businesses get involved in Greener Denver Business? From the Denver OED home page: Your participation is an important step to running more efficiently, reducing your energy expense and developing ideas for programs, policies and practices that can translate into profit. Our goal is to provide resources to evaluate and reduce your company's per capita energy needs. We plan to support and build recognition of your efforts by identifying best practices and providing reports of their success. Graham and Betsy share some important details.
Related Links: Greener Denver Business || CORE Colorado || Greenprint Denver || Denver OED || w3w3.com Blog || Keywords: Greener Denver Business, Betsy Long, Graham Russell, Going Green, Andre Pettigrew, Greenprint Denver, Denver OED CORE - Channel: CEC 11954262 bytes - 7/20/09 LISTEN

Monday June 22, 2009 - Live at 2:00pm - Colorado Rising IP TV on w3w3.com

677_ It’s IP TV. Listen and watch the four interviews listed below. We archive all interviews for anytime viewing on the Colorado Rising / w3w3 TV Channel. And, BTW, if you have any entrepreneurial interview ideas, contact us.

Monday June 22, 2009 - Live at 2:00pm

This weeks guests are...
2:00 Kathleen Quinn Votaw & David Strong: ACG - M&A
2:15 Aleen Campbell: Saving Lives and Raising Money
2:30 Steve Replin: When the Banks Say No...
2:45 Adam Sachs: TechStars Winner (Via SKYPE)
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Fabulous teachers, a keen interest in math and science lead to an IT career

673_ Fabulous teachers, a keen interest in math and science lead to an IT career 
Terry Morreale introduces us to yet another Woman in IT. We're talking to Professor Elizabeth Jessup, Computer Sciences Department at CU. For some, their career path is pretty straightforward. Terry asked, "How did you get to Professor in the Computer Sciences Dept at CU?" "It was a long and convoluted route. In high school I became interested in math and science, I had fabulous teachers. I went on to college where I was a math major, but I also took a lot of physics." Today she teaches numerical computing. When asked what type of research she did, Liz explained that computers in general can't represent numbers exactly. Larry was very surprised. "The first main issue is how to get the right answer on a computer. There are standards in place so you don't have to worry... but scientists do. The second issue is how to get the right answer in a reasonable amount of time. We're always interested in speeding up the process." Terry asked if Liz noticed a difference in student enrollments for computer sciences. As suspected they're down but much worse for women. "It's cyclical, but at the high point women represented 35% down to single digits today." Liz thinks working on the curriculum can help - she's had success in the past. Listen now for more insights...
Related Links: Barking Seal Blog || Applied Trust || Women in IT || Liz Jessup || Keywords: Elizabeth Jessup, Terry Morreale, Applied Trust Engineering, ATE, Barking Seal, CU, Computer Sciences > Channels: WiIT Bytes: 13526834 LISTEN 6/8/09 LISTEN

Inaugural NCWIT Symons Innovator Award Honors Anousheh Ansari

Inaugural NCWIT Symons Innovator Award Honors Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari earned a place in history in 2006 as the fourth private explorer, the first woman private explorer, and the first astronaut of Iranian descent to visit space. Back on Earth, Anousheh returned to her job as co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, a company that hopes to dramatically alter and simplify consumers' digital living experience. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy discuss the path and the passion of Anousheh in her high-tech entrepreneurial journey. She loves to 'give birth' to new things and to help people. Anousheh immigrated to the United States as a teenager who did not speak English. She immersed herself in education. Prior to founding Prodea Systems, Anousheh served as co-founder, chief executive officer and chairman of the board for Telecom Technologies, inc. The company successfully merged with Sonus Networks, Inc., a provider of IP-based voice infrastructure products in a deal worth approximately $750M. LISTEN Related Links: Prodea Systems ||  Double Launch || || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| NCWIT Channel || Photos from Awards Presentation || Keywords: Anousheh Ansari, Prodea Systems, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes 10/15/07 > Bytes: 18973991 - 5/18/09 LISTEN

Making a difference to humanity with the patience and fortitude to follow through

664_ Making a difference to humanity with the patience and fortitude to follow through 
It's not often, in the world of science and superior intellect, that you and I can witness the pieces, the building blocks of a future accomplishment that could someday be a blessing on 'your quality of life' at a time when that is all that matters. Rarely revealed, here is a glimpse of a young, humble but passionate man with a lofty ideal - along with the system, the school and the country that enables and empowers this scenario again and again. I'm talking about Dave Allen and CU TTO and in this case, a young scientist, Dr. Hubert Yin who, in Dave's words represents 'the whole enchilada'. The idea is well in the works - but following a carefully choreographed path - the result is 8 to 15 years out. Stretching the envelope, his wish, to help people manage pain (a most common disease) without causing further trouble. He is on a path that is common in its course, its mind bending, detailed, hard work... the course that could lead to glory, a Nobel Prize, or not. It's about the University system and the special people at Tech Transfer who understand and assist the men and women who can actually make it happen. We sometimes hear the 'good news' without understanding. This time it is elegant in its simplicity, representative of the blood, sweat and tears behind the 'ivory tower' and sometimes leading to success you and I can appreciate. Meet Dr. Hubert Yin and really listen to Dave Allen. Simply put this is an inspiring story.
Related Links: CU Tech Transfer Office || CU TTO Channel || CU TTO Award Photos || PodCasting Directory || Keywords: Hubert Yin, David Allen, CU TTO, University of Colorado, Research, Chemistry, Biochemistry, NIH > Channel:CUTTO Bytes= 15905021 > 5.11.09 LISTEN

Winning partnership of a computer scientist and a cardiologist

647_ Winning partnership of a computer scientist and a cardiologist
David Allen, CU Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer said, "Collaborative cardiac imaging research with a computer scientist and a cardiologist." is what led to winning the University of Colorado's Technology Transfer 'Inventors of the Year, UC Denver' award for Drs. John Carroll and James Chen." Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States and in the State of Colorado. Among cardiovascular diseases, the only type that is increasing in number and relative percentage is heart failure. By integrating research and the training of scientists and physicians specializing in heart muscle disease and heart failure, the Institute allows a more efficient and creative approach to the training of future scientists and physicians while markedly enhancing the potential for securing program grants and the ability to integrate training program and research. Larry talked with them on a number of topics including funding and its challenges during these economic times. Their overall scientific goal is to derive a complete understanding of the molecular mechanisms responsible for the development and progression of human myocardial failure and to produce new diagnostic treatment modalities. We need more winning research like theirs.
Related Links: University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center, Div. of Cardiology || CU TTO Home Page || CUTTO Award Photos || Tech Transfer Channel || Channel:CUTTO Bytes= 11751030 > 4.13.09 LISTEN