Colorado Puts Money Into Biosciences

Joining Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle in announcing initiatives for biosciences and stem cell research, a Colorada Governor Bill Ritter gave a talk today on Colorado’s growing biotech and bioscience economic sector, representing over 400 bioscience companies in the state.
Gov. Ritter just signed a bill putting $26.5 million investment in the industry through the new Colorado Bioscience [...]

Wisconsin, It’s Not Just for Cheese Anymore

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle held a press conference this afternoon on why Wisconsin is way more than cheese.  Announcing that the Genetics Policy Institute picked Wisconsin as the host of the 2008 World Stem Cell Summit, Gov. Doyle laid out how the state is on pace in building the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
The Institutes are [...]

Life Science Companies Learn to Adapt to the Evolution of Capital

In a breakout session featuring five experts on a life sciences financing panel entitled, “The Evolution of Capital: New Sources of Financing in the Life Sciences,” the panel laid out the capital landscape where the question is how and with whom.  The group discussed how venture capital has evolved for life science companies and how [...]

Patent Baristas: On the Road to San Diego

I’m excited to be attending BIO2008 Conference in San Diego this week where I’ll be participating as an on-site blogger via the BioOnTheRoad (at bioontheroad.org/) blog — similar to last year’s BIO Voice — the blog of the BIO2008 conference.  I’ve been Editor-in-Chief of Patent Baristas since 2004 but I love working with news ways [...]