Discoveries Meet Momentum: A Year in Review
Fitzsimons Innovation Community releases its Second Annual Innovation Report focused on the momentum our Community members build on our campus to take their discoveries and projects from idea to market.
Fitzsimons Innovation Community is an integrated urban campus where health and life sciences companies of all sizes work on their next big things. Our customized workspace, collaborative campus, and proximity to one of the top health systems and medical schools in the country make our community the perfect place to put down roots and get to work.
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Fitzsimons Innovation Community releases its Second Annual Innovation Report focused on the momentum our Community members build on our campus to take their discoveries and projects from idea to market.
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Fitzsimons Innovation Community is a sprawling campus of leading-edge laboratory workspace where innovative health and life sciences companies of all sizes take their research to the next level to cure diseases, save lives, and improve care. Move in, and build your vision here—today.
From genetically engineering cancer-fighting cells to developing the latest in vaccine science, the organizations working in our specialized life sciences labs are on the frontlines of the most exciting progress in healthcare. Emerging and established companies choose Fitzsimons not only for the latest in high-tech facilities, but for its ecosystem of collaboration, innovation, and support.
Here, scientists interface with fellow entrepreneurs, but also have direct access to renowned clinicians and researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, just steps away. The Community is based on the boundary-pushing that can only happen when the best and brightest are in the same space. Important breakthroughs are the norm; collaboration is the key.
Compositive Primary
A unique school for children ages three through fifth grade located on the Fitzsimons Innovation Community campus. The school’s program is student-driven and inquiry-based with multi-age groupings of children within a classroom, extended day care, and enrichment programs during school breaks.
Aurora Science and Tech Middle School
Serves sixth through eighth grades with a range of learning environments, including a suite of dedicated science classrooms. Set within the Fitzsimons Innovation Community, the new school offers opportunities for students to connect with the cutting-edge medicine and life sciences research happening nearby.
Light Rail Station
The RTD rail system operates 365 days a year. Eleven rail lines service 53 stations along Denver’s North, East, Southeast, Southwest, and West rail corridors. Quickly get to major hot spots like Denver International Airport, the Theatre District, Convention Center, Ball Arena, and Park Meadows Mall.
Visionary
organizations
Capital raised in the past three years
Community members who had a major breakthrough discovery last year
Community members who forged strategic partnerships last year
Our Community members are working on world-changing developments in bioscience and healthcare, and they’re doing it in workspace customized to their projects.
Five buildings with 427,000 sq feet of custom laboratory, office, and meeting space
Flexible manufacturing, assembly, and distribution space
Community conference rooms, 100-seat auditorium, kitchen, and café
Dedicated Fitzsimons Innovation Community parking garage
Across the street from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Our Community members work across the street from the renowned University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, UCHealth, and Children’s Hospital Colorado with two million patient visits a year, giving you direct access to expert clinicians and researchers. It’s a science and healthcare education mecca with a deep talent pool for both collaboration and recruiting.
We talked last month about the state of Colorado as a draw for life sciences organizations because of its favorable business environment, highly educated population, and access to leading research and academic facilities. But these companies are taking some of Colorado’s intangibles into consideration, too, because the top life sciences talent often comes here for the thriving scientific environment and then stays for the lifestyle. Sometimes it’s even the other way around.
Fitzsimons Innovation Community companies choose Colorado as a home for many reasons, and the sunshine and skiing are further down on the list than you might think. With a business-friendly climate, world-class research and academic facilities, and economic stability, Colorado has become a hub where healthcare and bioscience innovators prosper. In addition, a passionate, inclusive, highly educated scientific population, business-friendly tax laws, and relatively lower costs of doing business mean our Community members have even more factors helping them succeed. Life sciences organizations are moving here for the multitude of industry benefits and staying because, well, Colorado is kind of amazing.
Located in Aurora, Colorado—part of the Greater Denver Metro area—Fitzsimons Innovation Community is the only organization in the Rocky Mountain West that offers specialized life sciences lab and office space for health and life sciences companies of all sizes. Our welcoming, walkable campus set against the inspiring backdrop of the Rockies is the perfect place to bring your discoveries to life.
Fitzsimons Innovation Community is proudly located in Colorado, a state that regularly tops the ranks of best places to live and work in the country. With both short- and long-term residences, top-rated schools, arts and culture, and nightlife on or near campus, the work-life balance is almost automatic.
The active lifestyle here revolves around Denver’s three hundred days of sunshine each year paired with easy access to the best in outdoor adventure. People just want to live in Colorado, so the state does some of your recruiting for you.
When you’re in the business of scientific discoveries, growth doesn’t necessarily happen in a straight line. You know that firsthand, and the good thing is, we know it, too. Our campus is home to companies at all different stages of idea and product development. There are startup, mid-sized, and long established businesses in every stage of the product lifecycle, all taking advantage of the ways we cater to that diversity. You can do the same, and you can get going right away.
"Since joining Fitzsimons Innovation Community, we’ve been able to operationalize our company, become a registered CLIA laboratory, hire and expand our team, and start generating data in less than six months. "
Jake Chabon
CEO, Foresight Diagnostics
"My favorite aspect of Fitzsimons Innovation Community is the sense of collaboration. You have startup companies working with collaborators right across the street at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. You can’t get that everywhere. "
Matt Seefeldt
Executive Director, Gates Biomanufacturing Facility
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