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Kansas City - K Krumme - krumme@aimkc.org
KU MBA in Biotechnology
Kansas State Center for Biotechnology in Olathe
Animal Health Corridor
Bill Tacon - btacon@bioohio.com
$50M Cleveland Clinic- Cardiovascular Innovation Center
Auglin Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - $500M investment
Pacific Northwest - Patricia Dombrowski - pdombrow@bcc.ctc.edu
Global Health: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joins forces with Buffet's philanthropy
Institute for systems biology's Leroy Hood seeds institute for systems medicine
University of Washington to Harvard: we'll take the $120M for the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluations
Puerto Rico East Central Region - Francis Garcia - fgarcia@intecopr.com
New lab for product development - a $53M lab for biotech development
Technology park in Cayeg being development on 100 acres
Development of a path innovation center in region
Central NJ - Jane Brady - jane.brady@dol.state.nj.us
Big phamra downsizing staff is a negative issue
Talent in region draws more life science firms
Connected to global markets via culturally diverse labor force propels life science industry
Puerto Rico East Central Region - Hector Ayde - hlayala@hpcf@upr.edu
Collaboration between AMGEN and UPR to improve the teaching of biotechnology
Development of a Bioprocess plant for biotechnology
Biominds undergraduate research program (AMGEN founded) to foster Undergrad Research
Wisconsin SC/SW - Marla Gamoran - mgamoran@matcmadison.edu
Significant company successes in tomotherapy, virent, and third wave
New breakthroughs in stem cells
Biofuels
Finger Lakes Region New York - James Hewlett - heweletja@flcc.edu
I-90 Biosciences Corridor
Imaging center / Kodak layoffs
Finger Lakes Region - Matthew Hurlbutt - mhurbutt@fingerlakeswired.com
University of Rochester to spend $500 million to expand medical campus of research
Rochester area colleges secure $1 million to expand Center for Excellence in Math and Science
New Rochester Institute of Technology
Finger Lakes - Jay Martinez - jay@greaterrochesterenterprise.com
$50M Life Sciences Translational Center to be built at the University Rochester Medical Center
Warburg Pincus acquires Bausch and Lomb and takes it private
Kodak's health imaging business ($3.5B sales) acquired by Canadian company & renamed Carestream Health
Bio-1 New Jersey - A. Fichtner - fichtner@rci.rutgers.edu
Establishment of Bio-1 WIRED Region
Small Bio-tech company success stories
Bayer pharmaceuticals relocation from CT to Northern NJ (outside of Bio-1 regions)
Wasatch Front - Lynn Purdin - lpurdin@utah.gov
Gene tracking (compatible to Iceland) due to LDS Genealogy information
National products sector strong
InnovaBio Student Success stories
DVIN- Helen Groft - hgroft@innovationphilidelphia.com
AZ buys Megagen for Billions
Dupont moves increasingly into bioengineering for food/products
Three states come together to increasing talent for life sciences industry
Dean of Drexel Business School
NJ Central DVIN - Ana Montero - anamontero@dol.state.nj.us
3 WIRED regions - BioPharma Industry Clusters
Governors Economic Growth Strategy
NJ Bio Partnership W/ NJ Council of Community Colleges
DVIN - Yustina Saleh - yustinasaleh@dol.state.nj.us
Concentration of workforce; most WIRED Regions
Concentration of industry
Denver Metro Region - Dawn Gardner - dgardner@co.arapahoe.co.us
CCA Biosciences lab- trained over 5,000 people in lab process
Loveland Bioscience Collaboration of Businesses
Colorado Bioscience Association workshops and Bio Breakfast
Metro Denver - Shelley Word - shelley.word@ccaurora.edu
Denver Metro High School teaches conduct over 5,000 DNA-related experimenting in 2007
Colorado Biosciences Association plans over 50 events for 2008
Fluid, Flexible, Unpredictable
Northern NJ - Ron Halperon - rhalperon@bionj.org
Breaking Bio
Workforce Development
High Growth continues
Metro Denver - Jerry McCarthey - Jerome.McCarthey@metrodenver.org
Fitzsimmons Research Campus - Clinical and research resources
National Jewish Hospital - one of the world's best post / doc respiratory infectious diseas research center
Annual bioindustry meeting
California - Elaine Johnson - ejohnson@biolink.ucsf.edu
CIRM - California Institute for Rejenerative Medicine funded at $3 Billion
BABEC - Bay Area Biotechnology Education Consortium (High School and Middle School biotech)
Bio-link national ATE Center provices Equipment and Supplies to Northern California Teachers through its Equipment Depot
Indiana - Sangyong Lee - slee@ivytech.edu
The construction start of the "The Center for Indiana Lifesciences"
NSF, ATE grant for educational collaboration
Strategic skills initiative grant from the governor -> Workforce training program for displace and under paid workforce
Mid Michigan - Bruce Ferris - ferrisb@lcc.edu
Biofuels are big - biofuel, corn
MSU President - mayor commitment to Bioscience Research & tie ins
Anything with the emergent (formerey BioPart) - FDA approved partner with Michigan economy
Central Kentucky - Sadiq Shah - sadiq.shah@wku.edu
Building thecritical man before branding
Match and science trading of preparing the future scientists
Sky teach - preparing science teachers to better prepare k-12 students for careers in science
Finger Lakes NY - Douglas Merril - douglas.merrill@cbet.edu
$60 Million for URMC CTSI ($300M plan) major regional initiative to promote "bench to bedside" medicine
CBET@RIT / Rochester Area Colleges Center of Excellence in Math and Science. Reviews effort to address deficiences in STEM career education
Agri-business - Biofuels
Delaware Valley - Nadakine Lomakin - nlomakin@lscalliance.org
Bio Rexis purchased by Pfizer
Indcumbent worker training trends in biotech in NJ, PA, and DE
3 States work together on WIRED Grant
Metro Denver - Mary Russell - merussel@jeffco.us
Algae farm may be wave of future
Workforce region created BioScience Academy with olcal community allegro
Colorado Biosciences Association
Central NJ - Berkharn Zilinskar -zilinskar@aesop.mtgert.edu
Biotech HS - Interviewing with Industry (Internships) at HigherEd
Large decrease in number of Biotech Start-ups
Defeat of Stem Cell Initiative
Central KY - I65 Corridor - Lisa Williams - lwilliams@kyinnovation.com
KY investments in bio-science companies
World headquarters located in KY
NC Piedmont Triad - Bob Hall - Bob-Hall@ncsu.edu
Technology council of the Winston Salem Chamber of Commerce. PR committee's marketing video for the region
Dr. Anthony Atala moving to the region (regenerative medicine)
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center announcement of a Transitional Science Institute
Northern Williamette Valley Oregon - Bob Lancer - bob@oregonbio.org
OTRADI
Genetech building fill facilicty
Calistor study ID's 243 Bioscience Companies / Institutions
Northern Williamette Valley Oregon -Cary Harkaway - charkaway@worksystems.org
Genetech building fill facilicty
Oregon biosciences assocation and WSI support the industry's training plan
Bioscience High Performance Training Consortium formed
Ag Innovation Triangle - Bonnie Elsey - bonnie.elsey@state.mn.us
Agricultural transformation: from production to value coded agriculture
Bio-fuels- Patenting - 25% energy form alternative source by 2025
Animal bi-products
Utah - Clifton Sanders - clifton.sanders
Myriad Genetics
Biotechnology 4-year parterships funded by legislature
University of Utah Researcher Mario Capecchi wins Nobel Price
NWEIA - Judith Shept - shefton@nyet.edu
Collaborative Education Effort Torture NJIT and H.S. BME/Robotics- Teaching Teachers
Bergen County Voc. Tech in in Biotech
New company funded from VMDNG venture funded
Central NJ - David Finegold - dfinegold@smlr.rutgers.edu
75% of world's large Pharma science meets Business
Co Stories - Bayer - Pharmaset - PTC
Specialized H.S.S. : Students telling stories - "Building H.S. of 21st century"
Jim Nichols - jnichols@obrimaatkins.com
The Hammer Institutes for Health Sciences
The training programs for bio-manufacturing and research
BTEC & BRITE
NC Biotech Center
Minnesota - Gelnn Thuringer - gred@frontiernet.com
Local bioscience company buys fail tourist center
Regions receives $5 million WIRED Grant
Start "lab tech tech program"
