CBSA Perspective: "Roche site in Boulder to be sold, operated as Corden Pharma"

Quoting from the Alicia Wallace report in the Boulder Daily Camera:

"The 265-person Roche Colorado site in Boulder is expected to be sold to International Chemical Investors Group, officials for both companies announced Wednesday....

'What's nice is it's such a specialized technical facility' that Roche still needs, said Holli Reibel, president and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association. 'And (Corden) might really bring more product to the plant, which is excellent for Colorado.'

More and more, Reibel added, biotech and pharmaceutical companies have made moves to focus on their core capabilities and have opted to outsource manufacturing efforts elsewhere -- sometimes overseas. Corden Pharma, being a large contract manufacturer with an international reach, should be a welcome addition to Colorado's bioscience community, she said."

Link to the dailycamera.com coverage

CID4 Awards Funding and Management Assistance to Longmont's Flashback Technologies - "Advanced Patient Monitoring To Predict Patient Outcome"

Quoting from this morning's news release: "The Colorado Institute for Drug, Device and Diagnostic Development (CID4has selected Longmont, Colorado-based Flashback Technologies, Inc. to receive funding and management assistance. Flashback is advancing development of their proprietary learning framework for the real-time analysis of physiological data.

Hemorrhage is the number one cause of potentially preventable death on the battlefield and in civilian trauma settings. Work under development includes a device powered by software that quickly and reliably detects and estimates blood loss volume and predicts a time to cardiovascular collapse.

Discoveries at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Surgery, the University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Computer Science, and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research have revealed several previously unknown hemodynamic relationships leading to a patent-pending platform technology for the real-time analysis of human vital sign data. A set of algorithms, collectively termed the Cardiovascular Reserve Monitor (CRM), is under development with funding from the U.S. Army. The CRM takes as inputs non-invasive physiological sensor data that in real-time: 1) Detects the early onset of hypovolemia (blood loss) 2) Estimates blood loss volume, and 3) Predicts a patient's individual risk for cardiovascular collapse."

Link to the Pitch Engine social media release

Colorado Society of CPAs Magazine: "State of the Industry: Biotechnology"

Quoting from the interview of CBSA's Pres/CEO Holli Riebel by Natalie Rooney:

"Over the last five years, jobs in Colorado's bioscience field grew above the national average. Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology grew at 3 percent in Colorado, but these same field decreased 4 percent across the U.S. Overall,biotechnology was on of the few Colorado employment sectors that grew."

Link to the article in the July/Aug 2011 NewsAccount magazine

Denver-Based Boettcher Foundation: 2011 Class of Boettcher Investigators

The 2011 Boettcher Investigators include (pictured left to right– back row):

Tingting, Yao, Ph.D., Colorado State University

Zhe Chen, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder

Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

(pictured left to right– front row):

Robert Doebele, M.D., Ph.D., University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

John D. (Nick) Fisk, Ph.D., Colorado State University

Link to the July Colorado BioScience Association FOCUS newsletter featuring the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research/Boettcher Investigators program (page 2 of the pdf)

Includes Video: 'Cat Rescue Society Hopes To Find Young Animal Abuse Suspects'

Quoting from the posting: "A cat rescue organization is looking for boys who abused a kitten.

Two girls rescued the kitten on Friday and took it to the Cat Care Society. The girls wouldn’t give their names and only said they rescued the kitten at 10th and Sheridan. They said boys burned his whiskers nearly off along with some of the hair on his ears. They were also swinging him around by his tail.

When the kitten came in, his eyes were full of blood and he had internal bleeding. He still has contusions in his lungs and some head trauma."

Link to the news item with video

Denver & The West: "4-month-old kitten recovering after being twirled by his tail in Lakewood"

Quoting from the 7/27 Denver Post article by Jordan Steffen:

"A Lakewood cat shelter is asking for help in finding the people who twirled a 4-month-old kitten by its tail, before trying to burn its whiskers with a lighter.

On Friday, Marvell, a male kitten, was brought to the Cat Care Society, after two girls spotted some children abusing the kitten near 10th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard, said Shari Shiffer-Krieger, executive director of the shelter.

"They took the tail and did a lasso movement, swinging the cat around," Shiffer-Krieger said.

His whiskers and ear tips were also singed by a lighter.

Marvell, named after the Colorado Rapid's player Marvell Wynne, was treated for internal injuries to his lungs and bladder, as well as eye injuries and brain trauma, Shiffer-Krieger said."

Link to the full Denver Post report.

The incident was also reported by 9News this week.

Marvell should be available for adoption in a few weeks.

9News: "Severely abused kitten in recovery" at Cat Care Society

Quoting from the posting:

"LAKEWOOD - A 4-month-old male kitten is recovering after suffering abuse and burns, according to the shelter that rescued him. The kitten suffered burns to his whiskers and tips of his ears, and showed signs of injuries from being swung by his tail before he was brought into the Cat Care Society, a feline shelter and veterinary clinic, in Lakewood on Friday. They say the kitten underwent five hours of treatment when it arrived at the shelter." [Marvell, pictured here, recuperating until strong enough for adoption from the Cat Care Society]

Read more at 9News.com