Showing posts with label Colorado BioScience Association; CID4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colorado BioScience Association; CID4. Show all posts

Friday, January 25, 2013

Technology: 'Life-science group hopes to help ease funding scarcity'


Quoting from today's Northern Colorado Business Report:

"Securing financing for life-science startups in Northern Colorado has long been a struggle, but industry insiders say they are taking steps to improve the situation.

The Colorado Institute for Drug, Device and Diagnostic Development (CID4), for one, is looking at more creative ways to draw capital to Colorado’s life-science industry, said Lauren Constantini, the nonprofit’s vice president of therapeutics and device development.

Constantini was one of several panelists who discussed challenges facing the industry at a meeting of the region’s life-science industry leaders and researchers earlier this month...

...Despite the challenge of raising capital, life-science companies seem to be doing well at the moment. The life-science industry grew 4.6 percent last year, attributed mostly to the device sector, said April Giles, CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association."

Link to coverage of the event held at the Fort Collins technology incubator the Rocky Mountain Innosphere

Friday, April 09, 2010

Cover article from Biotech Reporter Greg Avery: Bioscience Gets Boost From Grants


"State grants are funding new university laboratories in Aurora, Boulder and Fort Collins — filling what bioscience veterans say has been a gap in turning promising research into new pharmaceuticals and successful companies. The first installments of nearly $7 million in state biotech infrastructure grants are being paid this spring."

CBSA Interim Executive Director Denise Brown and CBSA Board Member Jim Linfield share their perspective in the report.

Link to the article

Link to descriptive chart - $10.5 million in state grants has been awarded to solidify biotech drug development infrastructure in Colorado