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Fitzsimons Innovation Community Selected as New Home for RefinedScience
November 12, 2024
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RefinedScience: A Homegrown Success Story Finds a New Home at Fitzsimons Innovation Community
November 12, 2024
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October 31, 2024
Colorado Wants to be No. 1 Destination for Life Science Companies
News | Feb 27, 2024

Colorado Wants to be No. 1 Destination for Life Science Companies

Nearly two dozen Colorado organizations hope to leverage the momentum of a growing life sciences sector in the state with a new campaign that recruits more companies to locate here. The effort, called the Colorado Hub for Health Impact, touts the state's highly educated talent pool, central U.S. location, successful fundraising and more as reasons to make Colorado a hub for health innovation, its leaders say.

Fitzsimons Innovation Community Partners with Colorado Hub for Health Impact, a National Economic Development Campaign to Attract Health Innovation Companies to the State
News | Feb 27, 2024

Fitzsimons Innovation Community Partners with Colorado Hub for Health Impact, a National Economic Development Campaign to Attract Health Innovation Companies to the State

Colorado Hub for Health Impact, a new national economic development campaign elevating Colorado as America’s epicenter for life sciences innovation launches today. More than 20 life sciences organizations, economic development groups, local governments, developers, and builders invest to bring new, high-growth companies to Colorado.

Fitzsimons Innovation Community Partners with the Colorado Hub for Health Impact Campaign
Blog | Feb 27, 2024

Fitzsimons Innovation Community Partners with the Colorado Hub for Health Impact Campaign

If it has to do with health and innovation in Colorado, Fitzsimons Innovation Community is bound to be a part of it. We are especially proud to be an Innovator Partner in our state’s life sciences ecosystem campaign: Colorado Hub for Health Impact. This campaign brings together more than 20 Colorado organizations to promote the benefits of working, living, and discovering in Colorado to a national audience. The campaign is spreading the word about how our excellent infrastructure, lab and manufacturing space, and outstanding academic and research institutions make the perfect home for life sciences companies of all sizes.

Fitzsimons Innovation Community Receives AC-REP’s Gamechanger Award
News | Feb 22, 2024

Fitzsimons Innovation Community Receives AC-REP’s Gamechanger Award

Aurora's A1 Boxing is helping kids get off the streets and into the ring, and a city initiative is helping to fund it. It's all part of Aurora's goal to put an end to youth violence. Also on this week's show, the Aurora Police Department launches a new high-tech way for residents to track crime in our city; meet an Aurora couple who may have the answer for finding ever-lasting love; and we'll take you behind-the-scenes of the Aurora Eatery at the Town Center of Aurora.

GelSana Wins Inaugural Mines Venture Fund I Investment
News | Feb 19, 2024

GelSana Wins Inaugural Mines Venture Fund I Investment

Colorado-based biomaterials company GelSana Therapeutics has received seed equity funding from Mines Venture Fund I, which invests in startups led by Colorado School of Mines faculty, staff, alumni, students and formal partners. It’s the Mines Venture Fund’s first investment since it launched in December 2023.

CU Anschutz: With Quantum Leap, CU Anschutz Set to Pioneer Advancements in Medicine
News | Feb 15, 2024

CU Anschutz: With Quantum Leap, CU Anschutz Set to Pioneer Advancements in Medicine

“There is a lot going on in Colorado right now because of the tech hub designation,” said Laura Buccini, DrPH, MPH, MA, assistant vice chancellor for research development and strategy at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “But quantum sensing and quantum computing are things we’ve been talking about in medicine for years.” CU Anschutz is part of Elevate Quantum Colorado, along with CU Boulder, CU Denver and other institutions of higher education. The consortium includes over 70 private and government industry companies and organizations.

Nature Showcases Strength of Fitzsimons’ Collaborative Environment for Advancing Health Innovation
News | Feb 01, 2024

Nature Showcases Strength of Fitzsimons’ Collaborative Environment for Advancing Health Innovation

Johannes Fruehauf recognized a need for co-working laboratories — flexible rental lab spaces with shared equipment and consumables — a few years before he sold his first biotechnology spin-out company, Cequent Pharmaceuticals, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2010. At the time, he had started providing wet-lab consulting services to venture capitalists, so they could see whether he could replicate results from start-up companies that they were considering investing in. Some of those small companies asked whether they could rent a corner of his lab.

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