Earlier this year, Kate Goes became the first patient in North America to use FDA-approved adaptive deep brain stimulation (DBS) technology for Parkinson’s. UCHealth Ph.D. clinical neuropsychologist John Thompson helped make the pathbreaking innovation possible.
The University of Colorado system generated $12.2 billion in economic impact across Colorado last year, highlighting CU’s growing role in the state’s economy through education, research, innovation and health care, according to a new economic study. This is growth of more than half a billion dollars over 2024.
Colorado Real Estate Journal’s latest Health Care and Life Sciences Quarterly features an article from Dr. Terry Fry, Executive Director of the Gates Institute at University of Colorado Anschutz, about how the proximity between academia, biomanufacturing, and industry collaboration at Fitzsimons accelerates the development of life-changing cell and gene therapies.
Precision health and medicine giant Verily will be partnering with CU Anschutz and UCHealth to create an AI enabled ecosystem entailing research ready biomedical pipelines and datasets. In addition, the partnership is aiming to build curated AI models across a variety of specific therapeutic and drug areas, such as oncology, musculoskeletal and transplant medicine, to…
As you know from all the buzz, this year marks a milestone for Fitzsimons Innovation Community—25 years since the opening of our first labs in Bioscience 1 in 2000. In all of those 25 years, and even before that, one of the biggest challenges facing Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem has been clear: access to capital. With major investment firms concentrated on the coasts, Colorado companies often found themselves out of sight and out of mind, forced to travel across the country to meet with investors who might not understand the unique strengths of our state’s innovation ecosystem. That’s changing. Enter Stout Street Capital and their newly announced Unmet Frontier Fund, backed by the State of Colorado through the Venture Capital Authority.
Change Please was named one of Instawork’s Community Partner of the Year winners for 2025. The Community Partner Awards recognized businesses prioritizing hiring from underserved local communities. With a Denver area location at Fitzsimons Innovation Community, the Change Please mission is to tackle homelessness through employment, training, and holistic support is transforming lives.
The Anschutz Foundation has committed up to $50 million to the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus to jumpstart a sweeping new initiative in mental health. As a challenge gift, the investment aims to generate $200 million in funding from public and private partners and will create the CU Anschutz Campus Mental Health Collaborative to…
The city of Aurora is growing a reputation for helping developments get off the ground quickly by helping projects make it through the local permitting process without snags.
Onconaut Therapeutics, a privately-held therapeutics company and prior Innosphere client company, has received $2.5M in funding through a Fast-Track Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI) for Onconaut to develop small molecule drug inhibitor targeting Chromodomain Helicase DNA binding protein (CHD1L), a novel oncogenic target for…
Never Dream Alone, the latest phase of the CU Anschutz advertising campaign, filmed in collaboration with the Colorado Symphony at Boettcher Concert Hall. The music mirrors the process of discovery at CU Anschutz – a lone idea blossoming into new cures and treatments through innovation and collaboration. “This campaign is about our people, their ideas…