Colorado Gov Bill Ritter helps open $53 million Research Innovation Ctr on Colo State University Foothills campus

"University and government officials came together to celebrate the public unveiling of Colorado State University's Research Innovation Center.

The 72,000-square-foot facility on the Foothills Campus will serve university researchers as well as private companies in the biomedical field. It features state-of-the-art bioscience laboratories as well as office space, a portion of which will be set aside as a business incubator for lease by CSU startups and existing businesses.

The hope is to extend CSU's infectious disease supercluster by partnering the public and private sector scientists and embedding business development teams with the researchers. The goal, CSU President Tony Frank explained, is to shorten the time from laboratory to market for the groundbreaking research and discoveries being made at the university. Frank added that he expects this facility to be the first of several for CSU, with other research centers dedicated to the other superclusters in clean energy and cancer."

Link to Northern Colorado Business Report: http://www.ncbr.com/article.asp?id=51554

Link to Fort Collins Coloradoan: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20100512/NEWS01/5120320

Link to KUNC - NPR/Community Radio for Northern Colorado (includes audio report): http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kunc/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1648489/Regional/Governor.Helps.Open.New.CSU.Innovation.Center