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One of the most exciting times of year for us here at Fitzsimons Innovation Community is when we launch our Annual Innovation Report, and this year is no different. For the fourth year in a row, we are proud to share this report featuring updates, insight, and data about all the things that make our Community special.
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We had the pleasure of speaking with David Saad, CBRE Executive Vice President who runs their life sciences group here in Denver. We’re excited to have him walk us through CBRE's annual 2025 Life Sciences Outlook and provide insight into how it pertains to the Colorado market and what the future of life sciences real estate looks like in the Denver-Boulder-Aurora region, and specifically on the Fitzsimons Innovation Community campus.
At Fitzsimons Innovation Community, women in STEM isn’t just a buzz phrase. Many of the innovative companies on our campus are led, founded, and staffed by women scientists, physicians, and inventors doing remarkable work. In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we spoke with some of the esteemed women leaders and innovators from three organizations that call Fitzsimons Innovation Community home.
Talking leadership and the future with Fitzsimons Innovation Community’s New President and CEO. Kelly Brough likes to get stuff done. Her fast-moving, no-nonsense leadership style, commitment to meeting goals, and ability to bring people together are the qualities that drew the Fitzsimons Innovation Community Board of Directors to bring her on as our new President and CEO. This month, we were excited to sit down with her and discuss her style, her agenda, and what she’s ready to get done for Fitzsimons Innovation Community. It’s a Q and A that left us inspired and fired up for what she has in store.
One of the most exciting times of year for us here at Fitzsimons Innovation Community is when we launch our Annual Innovation Report, and this year is no different. For the fourth year in a row, we are proud to share this report featuring updates, insight, and data about all the things that make our Community special.
Fitzsimons Innovation Community welcomes Kelly Brough as the new CEO of Colorado’s premier hub for life sciences innovation. As the Community continues its dynamic growth, Kelly’s leadership will drive Fitzsimons’ mission to support pioneering health innovators transforming the future of medicine.
After almost 35 years in the life sciences industry, Steve VanNurden, President and CEO of Fitzsimons Innovation Community is announcing his retirement. A successful, decades-long career is bound to be filled with milestones, accomplishments, and accolades, and of course this is true for VanNurden, but to him, it all boils down to one thing: patient care.
At Fitzsimons Innovation Community, we get extremely excited when new organizations put down roots on our campus. But sometimes, these new Community members aren’t really new at all. We can explain. A couple months ago here on the blog, we talked about CU Innovations, and how it provides a path to commercialization for the breakthrough work coming out of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. In essence, it’s a way for new discoveries happening through the course of research and training to evolve into new organizations and make their way to market. RefinedScience, a high-tech biosciences company that uses unique access to and analysis of specialized data to inform drug development and discovery, is the newest Community member on the Fitzsimons campus and a perfect example of a CU Innovations success story.
Here on the Fitzsimons Innovation Community campus, life sciences professionals thrive on collaboration, innovation, and breakthroughs in patient care. Another thing they thrive on? Caffeine. One of our newest Community members brings caffeine to spare, but they also bring compassion, forward thinking, and a business model that drives meaningful social change—one cup of coffee at a time.
For the past 15 years, Elyse Blazevich has been innovating and creating new pathways in life sciences discovery in Colorado, most recently as President and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) and President of the Colorado BioScience Institute. An important Fitzsimons Innovation Community partner from their beginning, CBSA advances Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem by building a collaborative, pro-innovation business environment. CBSA expands access to capital, offers education and networking opportunities for their members, and advocates for life sciences companies by creating strong partnerships with policymakers and business leaders. One of the many ways they provide these opportunities is through the Rocky Mountain Life Sciences Investor & Partnering Conference, an event Fitzsimons Innovation Community is always honored to sponsor.
In almost every sentence where Fitzsimons Innovation Community is mentioned, so too is our proximity to and partnership with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Breakthrough work requires strong partnerships, and the relationships we facilitate with the clinicians, researchers, business leaders, and policymakers in our area create the connections our health innovators need for success. At the heart of so many of these relationships are the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and CU Innovations. This month, we were honored to talk with Gali Baler, Ph.D., Managing Director of Strategy and Operations for CU Innovations at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Director of Investments at the CU Healthcare Innovation Fund.
If you ask the Economic Development team for Adams County Government what drives them, they’ll tell you it’s their goal of being the most inclusive and innovative county in America. Fitzsimons Innovation Community is proud to call Adams County home, and our recent conversation with the leaders of the Adams County Government office only reinforced that pride. We spoke this month with Lucas Workman, Economic Development Manager, and Caroline Joy, Community and Economic Development Marketing Lead about the goals and visions the Adams County Government has for one of the fastest growing and most popular counties in Colorado. What we found out is that Adams County is the perfect blend of urban and rural amenities, affordability, and quality of life, and that the economic development of the county is in very capable hands.
In creating the plan for a 184-acre innovation campus, Fitzsimons Innovation Community leadership always knew there would be room for change and adaptability down the road. Over a 20-year period, technology and policies change, new information comes to light, and we gain a better understanding of what our Community members need to succeed. Focused on the ‘whole person,’ the update of our Master Plan seeks to build out the Community core in a way that supports research, learning, and living. Today, we have facilities, infrastructure, and wrap-around services for 25,000 researchers, faculty, and staff, along with 4,500 future health professionals. As the campus continues to grow, we will also evolve into a fully integrated, live-work-play-learn environment emphasizing personal health and wellbeing for every individual on campus, with access to the resources needed for groundbreaking life sciences research and transformative healthcare.
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