Colorado BioScience Association Celebrates 2011 Industry Standouts
The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) honored the outstanding bioscience companies and individuals in the state
during its 9th Annual Awards Dinner at the Downtown Denver Embassy Suites. The CBSA's Annual Awards program showcases the
significant achievements in the state's bioscience industry throughout the year.
Recipients of 2011 awards include:
Lifetime Achievement Award - Brian, Greg and Jeff Baldwin Brian Baldwin founded Baxa Corporation
in 1975 and grew the company steadily over the succeeding 36 years along with the leadership of sons Greg and Jeff. Creating
technology that saves patient lives, Baxa Corporation provides innovative, solution-based technologies for fluid handling
and delivery. Its systems and devices promote the safe and efficient preparation, handling, packaging, and administration
of fluid medications. Visit: http://www.baxa.com
Company of the Year - LABS Inc. LABS, Inc. has grown to service clients across many healthcare
industries over the past 30 years. Recently, they added a Cell and Molecular Biology Department to their already growing business.
Labs Inc. has been the market leader in laboratory testing for Infectious Disease, Microbiology, and Immunogenetics. Visit:
http://www.labs-inc.org
Rising Star of the Year - Ventria Bioscience Ventria Bioscience is the first company to
commercialize recombinant proteins derived from a plant-based manufacturing system. Ventria’s technology platform ExpressTec
is a safe, affordable and sustainable manufacturing technology that achieves recombinant protein yield that is many times
higher than alternative systems. Visit: http://www.ventria.com
Volunteer of the Year - Timothy Rodell, M.D. President and CEO, GlobeImmune Timothy Rodell’s
leadership and community involvement has greatly contributed to Colorado’s bioscience industry. He contributed significantly
to Senator Bennet’s Colorado Competes Report as a member of the Innovation Roundtable. He also has been a voice at the
federal level with a seat on BIO’s national Board leading our industry forward. Visit: http://www.globeimmune.com
Educator of the Year - Melissa Reynolds, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University Melissa Reynolds Ph.D. joined the Colorado State University faculty in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry
and is a participating faculty member in the School of Biomedical Engineering. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate
courses she has organized professional development and entrepreneurship programs and mentored over 25 multidisciplinary students.
Her positive leadership and encouragement has been continually evident to her colleagues, funders and the bioscience community
as a whole. More about Dr. Reynolds: http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/5620
Business Partner of the Year - Ernst & Young Ernst & Young has been a strong partner
for over seven years helping to move Colorado’s bioscience industry forward. They have provided excellent service to
the industry with expertise and dedication to our companies. Visit: http://www.ey.com
Legislator of the Year - State Representative Cheri Gerou Representative Cheri Gerou has
shown continued support for the bioscience community. She was involved in introducing and enabled the passage of HB 1283 and
SB 47 to extend and further fund the Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program. Visit: http://cherigerou.com
Chairman’s Award - Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson’s dedication
to advocacy and strategic development as an industry leader has advanced bioscience in Colorado. The company has continually
supported CBSA’s efforts to advance the regional bioscience community including the development of CBSA’s Rocky
Mountain Life Science Investor Conference and presence on the Board of Directors. Visit: http://www.jnj.com
Chairman’s Award - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet Senator Michael Bennet has championed
Colorado’s bioscience issues at the Capitol on several major issues including spearheading the Colorado Innovation Economy
Committee and the “Colorado Competes” report, of which CBSA co-chaired; a CEO roundtable event with FDA Commissioner
Hamburg; and The Medical Device Regulatory Improvement Act, introduced to boost Medical Device innovation and FDA reform.
Senator Bennet leadership and perseverance continue to benefit the bioscience community as a whole. Visit: http://bennet.senate.gov
Cat Care Society Is Now a Registered Non-Profit at GivingFirst.org, Participating in the Second Annual Colorado Gives Day
December 6th
Cat Care Society (CCS) has been accepted as a registered non-profit organization at GivingFirst.org, a program of the
Community First Foundation. The announcement is made by Diane Stoner, President of the CCS Board of Directors who says, "Cat
Care Society is simply thrilled to be a new GivingFirst.org participant. The opportunity to reach patrons and donors beyond
the scope of our individual efforts, combined with no processing fees for donations made on Colorado Gives Day December 6th,
means more funding will go directly to our important community programs at the Cat Care Society. This support for our appeal
efforts is unprecedented.”
This is the second year for Colorado Gives Day and,
similar to last year, processing fees will be covered by Community First Foundation, FirstBank and local foundations so that
100 percent of Colorado Gives Day donations go directly to nonprofit organizations such as CCS. FirstBank, Colorado’s
largest locally owned bank, has renewed its role as corporate partner of Colorado Gives Day, committing $500,000 to kick off
the 2011 campaign including $300,000 for the FirstBank Incentive Fund. The FirstBank Incentive Fund will be proportionally
allocated across all donations received, increasing the value of each donation. FirstBank is also sponsoring 12 new High Five
prizes at $5,000 each.
Cover Article and National Trade Jounal Placements for Bell Aquaculture by Absolutely PR
Quoting from the special report in the Indianapolis Business Journal by Sam Stall: "The ISA’s golden
boy is Redkey-based Bell Aquaculture, the state’s only industrial-scale fish farming outfit. While
Indiana’s aquaculture industry produces only 1 million pounds of fish annually, expansion plans at Bell will double
that number by next year. And the technology the company is developing could pave the way for even higher production. Put
simply, company officials have figured out how to raise their fish—yellow perch—indoors under highly controlled
conditions, just as chicken and hog farmers do. The company’s plant raises 1.8 million fish annually. That number will
balloon to 3 million when a $5 million expansion wraps up in 2012. To no surprise, Bell President Norman McCowan is bullish
on Indiana’s aquaculture potential, believing that the state (and his company in particular) possesses the three things
necessary to make a go of it: sustainable technology, readily available food (soybeans) and water, and funding." Subscribe to the IBJ
Bell Aquaculture is featured in the current edition (Volume 10, Issue 4 2011) of Fish Farming News - Aquaculture's
National Newspaper. Quoting from the article by FFN Contributing Writer Brian Robbins: "'Vertically integrated'
is a phrase that Bell uses frequently in describing itself: pretty much self-sufficient, relying only on outside suppliers
for fee. Other than that, they've built their own little world in five years' time and can definitely call their fish their
own, from broodstock and eggs, to harvesting and processing on the other end. With their existing facility, Bell is looking
at producing 1.8 million yellow perch in a one-year growout cycle. The new addition that's currently under construction (with
plans to be up and going by October) will add another 3 million yellow perch a year to Bell's forecast. But wait - it doesn't
stop there: Bell's next expansion will boost that number significantly, with the company hoping to have the capacity to handle
an additional 7.5 million perch by 2013." Link to FFN for subscription details
MedivanceŽ Inc. Arctic SunŽ Products Are the Preferred Choice of the top-10 of the U.S. News & World Report 2011-12 Honor
Roll Hospitals
Building on a track record of serving the nation's top ranked hospitals, Medivance® Inc. is pleased to announce
the top-10 of U.S. News & World Report 2011-12 Honor Roll Hospitals are all users of its Targeted Temperature Management™
product, the Arctic Sun®. The announcement was made by Robert Kline, President & CEO, who stated, "It is often
said that you are known by the company you keep, and we are honored to be affiliated with the top tier of the U.S. News 2011-12
Honor Roll Hospitals. The Medivance Team is very proud of this achievement."
Body temperature, systematically
measured and reported as a vital sign, contributes to maintenance of normal physiology and affects the processes leading to
recovery after illness. Intentional manipulation of body temperature has therefore emerged as a key treatment strategy for
hospitals. The Medivance® Arctic Sun® brings precision Targeted Temperature Management™ to the highest level
of performance available today for intentionally manipulating body temperature as a treatment strategy.
"Our
Arctic Sun® 5000 is really the only product in the market that can achieve, with precision, a prescribed order set for
temperature management with consistency for each patient. This is of particular importance in the hospital environment for
Continuous Quality Improvement , thus it's not surprising the top-10 Honor Roll hospitals make use of our technology,"
Kline explained.
CBSA Pres/CEO Holli Reibel interviewed with 9News Business Reporter Gregg Moss on Sept 12 about the upcoming Rocky Mountain
Life Science Investor and Partnering Conference in Denver. Presenting companies featured in the interview included PeptiVir,
VetDC and Flashback Technologies.
