06
Dec
2007
OPX Biotechnologies: Series A $3.6M
Posted in Series A
OPX Biotechnologies (Boulder) announced the close of a $3.6M Series A financing led by Mohr Davidow Ventures and X/Seed Capital Management. OPX is enabling renewable fuels and chemicals that are economically and environmentally superior to petroleum-based products by using a pioneering technology platform known as SCALEs to enable massively parallel full genome search and modification [...]
06
Dec
2007
Welcome: Catherine Kunst, Ph.D., MBA
Posted in My Rants
Congratulations to Catherine Kunst who has been named Executive Director of the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship, University Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Most recently Catherine had been a Research Assistant Professor at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, University Denver where she was working to identify the genes that may prevent or delay the onset [...]
04
Dec
2007
Many thanks to my friend Seth Levine, Managing Partner at Boulder-based Foundry Group, a venture group specializing in early-stage IT investments, who so graciously wrote a follow-up blog post on BioWest and EventVue. Check out the post and Seth’s blog, Seth Levine’s VC Adventure (here). If you enjoyed this post get free email updates (here).
03
Dec
2007
Gen Eng News: More CO Action!
Posted in CO Private: ARCA Discovery, CO Private: Caveo Thx, CO Private: Lohocla, CO Private: MBC Pharma, CO Private: MycoLogics, CO S+T Park at Fitz
If memory serves me correctly I have waxed on in the past about my affinity for Genetic Engineering News and often highlighted the journal when a Colorado company ended up in print there. Well the love story continues with the 15 November issue where Carol Potera composed a three-page treatise on the Colorado Science + [...]
02
Dec
2007
BioWest: An Event With a Vue!
Posted in My Rants
If you are registered to attend BioWest this week then you should have received a welcome email from my friends Rob and Josh, co-founders at EventVue (EV), along with a link to set up your BioWest-EventVue profile. What this web-based software enables you to do is see in advance who will be attending the BioWest [...]
02
Dec
2007
Exciting times indeed for Colorado and stem cell research! Back in 2005 the Gates Family Foundation of Denver (not Bill and Melinda) committed a $6M donation that enabled CU’s School of Medicine (CUSOM) at the Anschutz medical campus to create the Charles C. Gates Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Program…listen to the story (here). [...]
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