Yesterday, the Boettcher Foundation presented grants to the inaugural class of the Webb-Waring Biomedical research program. The six investigators from Colorado institutions will receive between $200,000 and $300,000 each spread over the next three years to support their research efforts. According to Governor Bill Ritter, who was on hand to announce these awards [...]
Biodesix announced recently that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded to the company patent number 7,736,905. The patent relates to the company’s first product Veristrat, which is used to identify non-small cell lung cancer patients likely to respond to therapy with erlotinib (Tarceva). Specifically, the patent is for the [...]
CBSA’s May BioBreakfast allowed two of Colorado’s 2009 Bioscience success stories to share their stories. First up was Paul Beresford of Biodesix, a company playing in the diagnostic space. Instead of focusing on evaluating a single analyte to diagnose disease, Biodesix seeks to predict treatment response through the evaluation of many analytes run through an [...]
Incubators seem to be popping up everywhere in Colorado. Some seem to be sticking pretty close to the blue print laid out by programs such as TechStars while others go further afield. One that definitely falls into the latter category is The Founder Institute. The founder of the Founder Institute, Adeo Ressi, [...]
Red Door Interactive convened a panel to discuss content marketing on Tuesday morning. The panel, moderated by Scott Esmond of Red Door, included panelists:
Sandra Ahn of Red Door
Ken Barber from the Denver Business Journal
John Dockstader of Vitamin Cottage
Toby Hedges of White Wave Food
Content marketing encompasses a wide variety of media –from a company [...]
Streat Chefs took home the top prize of $6,000 at the second annual CU New Venture Challenge. Streat Chefs seeks to bring gourmet dining to the streets catering to the growing “fast casual” market in the restaurant segment. The business is modeled after the successful food trucks that are common in LA. [...]
HepQuant LLC and The University of Colorado have completed a licensing agreement that allows HepQuant to continue development of a CU diagnostic technology for evaluating liver disease. The Colorado-based company originally licensed the technology in 2008 when it also received a $100,000 seed grant from the CU Technology Transfer Office. The underlying technology [...]
The week is a busy one from the clean tech perspective kicking off with a DaVinci Institute program featuring Blake Jones, President of Namaste Solar. Tuesday through Thursday sees CORE’s Sustainable Opportunity Summit at the Colorado Convention Center. Tuesday sees a Boulder edition of New Tech Meetup while Wednesday offers a lunchtime [...]
February 25, 2010 – 3:51 pm
CBSA’s BioBreakfast on Wednesday discussed the FDA approval process from a Medical Device Perspective. The panel discussion focused on the changing rules and attitudes that could affect medical device approval moving forward. Panelists at the event were:
Mark Holmes, CaridianBCT, VP of Regulatory and Government Affairs
Keith Martin, Medtronic Navigation, Senior Director Quality Systems and [...]
