Rocky Mountain Life Science Investor Conference (RMLIC) has selected 17 of the 30 companies that will present at its inaugural event that will take place on September 17 in Denver. The event – co-hosted by the Colorado Bioscience Association (CBSA) and the Arizona BioIndustry Organization (AZBio) with regional partners in Montana, Utah and New Mexico [...]
CBSA’s BioBreakfast on Wednesday brought together a panel to discuss the prospects for financing Life Science companies in the current economy. Moderated by Rusty Spinney of CaridianBCT, the panel discussed a wide range of issues while comparing the present climate to the financing environment of just a few years ago. The panelists were:
Dr. [...]
Life Science Events
Wed, July 29: BioBreakfast: How to Raise Capital in Difficult Times, 7:30am, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora
Miscellaneous
Tue, July 28: Boulder Entrepreneurs Meetup, 7:00, Dickens Tavern, Longmont
miRagen Therapeutics, Inc of Boulder, Colorado andArchemix Corp of Cambridge, Massachusetts announced a collaboration effort today. The research and development pursuit will seek to combine miRagen’s microRNA expertise with Archemix’s experience with aptamers, synthetically-derived short sequences of nucleic acids, to create conjugated aptamer-microRNA therapies. Both microRNAs and apatmers afford the possibility for powerful [...]
The acquisition of Scottsdale, Arizona based Zila, Inc. by Tolmar, Inc of Fort Collins, Colorado is being challenged by Intelident Solutions, Inc. which filed a complaint against Zila in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Tolmar, a pharmaceutical company focused on dental products and topicals, and Zila, a diagnostic company dedicated to the prevention, detection [...]
Life Science Events
Thursday, July 23: Biobeers, 6:30, Vine Street Pub, Denver
Miscellaneous
Mon, July 20: Startup Junkie Underground, 6:30, MADCAP Theater, Westminster
Tue, July 21: Boulder Open Coffee Club, 8:00am, The Cup, Boulder
Tue, July 21: Inventors’ Round Table: COS, 6:00, Village Inn Restaurant
Tue, July 21: Inventors’ Round Table: N CO, 6:00, Cipoletti’s, Loveland
OSI Pharmaceuticals announced that it will close its Boulder facility as part of a plan to consolidate all its US operations to a single campus located in Ardsley, a community located in Westchester County, New York. The 150 person Boulder facility was originally acquired by OSI in 2001 via purchase from Gilead Sciences, which had [...]
Life Science
Tue, July 7: CBSA: Mock Negotiations on Licensing Term Sheets, 9:00, Cooley Godward Kronish Offices, Broomfield
Miscellaneous
Tue, July 7: Boulder Open Coffee, 8:00 am, The Cup, Boulder
Thu, July 9: Inventor’s Roundtable – Denver, 5:30, Brooklyn’s Restaurant, Denver
Sat, July 11: Creative Innovation Bootcamp, 8:30, Wolf Law Building, CU Boulder
ARCA biopharma Inc.(Nasdaq: ABIO) announced that Richard B. Brewer will resign as CEO and assume the role of Chairman of the Board. Michael R. Bristow will retake the helm as President and CEO, roles he served in prior to Brewer joining the company. Bristow will step down as Chairman of the Board [...]
“People are always asking, ‘Where is the device, where’s the box that goes with it?” says Fred Mitchell, CEO of Beacon Biotechnology, on the reaction of people the first time they see the BrightSPOT System. Observers assume that the microscope-slide sized device must be inserted into a larger docking station where the analysis is [...]
