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In honor Then, Now, The Future of our 10 years supporting the bioscience industry in Colorado, we will be celebrating our successful history and looking ahead to the future. 5 16 Over the past decade, the Association has The Science The Economic grown from a small startup enterprise to a mature A Decade of Dramatic Development and successful organization. This publication Developments: Building the Colorado is an integral part of the Association’s mission Bioscience in Colorado Bioscience Industry to support the Colorado bioscience community Cluster: through advocacy, resources and advancement of opportunities for collaboration. With a 8 A Remarkable total audience of over 15,000, including on- The Industry Success Story line impressions, this publication is one of the Colorado Bioscience: industry’s greatest voices locally, nationally and A Microcosm of 20 internationally. Broader Industry The Future In this issue of Bioscience Colorado we look at the entire bioscience ecosystem in the state. The Trends The Next 10 Years: articles examine elements that are meant to infuse Peering into scientific excitement, highlight the success of 12 Bioscience’s policy partnerships—both locally and nationally— The Public Policy Crystal Ball as well as milestones, and showcase the evolution Partners for Progress: of Colorado’s industry from one well below the Three Colorado national rankings to a cluster rising to the top 10. 28 We know that Colorado is on the edge of Governors & Their Colorado by the creating a critical mass. With some of the Commitment to Numbers top research institutions in the U.S., over 600 Bioscience bioscience companies, and employment growth 32 outpacing the nation we are energized by the Looking Back Bioscience Discovery momentum. Given the collaborative nature of Colorado, our researchers, leaders, entrepreneurs at 10 Years of Policy Evaluation Grant and companies are committed to our success. Milestones Program We look forward to serving the industry and (BDEGP) working with the bioscience community for the next 10 years. Produced by: Published by: Colorado BioScience Association Colorado BioScience Association and April Giles 216 16th Street, Suite 850 Colorado Office of President and CEO Denver, CO 80202 Economic Development Colorado BioScience Association www.CoBioScience.com and International Trade (303) 592-4073 Advancing Biomedicine in Colorado The Anschutz Medical Campus and Fitzsimons Life Science District in Aurora is the nation’s newest health sciences city, integrating education, research (more than 1,100 research faculty and more than 2,500 researchers) and the best in clinical care (with three affiliated hospitals). In Boulder, the new Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building houses more than 600 faculty, staff and students from six CU- Boulder departments, helping create genuinely groundbreaking biotechnology research via the CU BioFrontiers Institute: a collaboration among CU-Boulder, the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. CU is recruiting world-class interdisciplinary faculty for these and other initiatives, like the new Anschutz Center for Health and Wellness and the Department of Bioengineering at the Anschutz Medical Campus, and ongoing bioscience and technology efforts on the Boulder campus. CU has a track record of alliances with companies that enhance healthcare outcomes – CU research has led to four new approved drugs and numerous new diagnostic tests and medical devices, and CU is nationally prominent for new company creation, including biotech firms like Myogen (purchased by Gilead), GlobeImmune, ARCA biopharma, OPX Biotechnologies, SomaLogic, Taligen (purchased by Alexion) and over 70 others since 1994. CU Denver | Anschutz $500M Medical Campus Bio-related sponsored research funding Strategic Research Initiatives Laura Simon, 303.724.4636 received annually by CU’s four campuses. FDA-approved drugs developed at CU: Kineret, Macugen, Zostavax 4 and Botox (use). Connect with 200 biotech at CU Drugs, diagnostics and devices in CU’s active intellectual CU-Boulder New drugsNew in being tested 800 clinical trialsclinical by CU faculty property portfolio. BioFrontiers Institute Jana Watson-Capps, 303.492.3588 http://biofrontiers.colorado.edu Biotech companies founded based on CU 80 technologies, since 1994. CU technologies currently licensed Technology Transfer to bio industry CU Denver|Anschutz: Rick Silva, 303.724.0222 partners 155 CU-Boulder, UCCS: Kate Tallman, 303.492.5732 www.cu.edu/techtransfer A Decade of Dramatic Developments: Bioscience in Colorado BY ANDREA PAWLICZEK hink back to 2003. You may have just purchased your first cell phone with a camera. If you wanted to get in touch with a college friend or former colleague Tyou had to send an email or pick up the phone as Facebook was not online yet. For many of us, looking back at the use of personal technology may be the easiest way to see major developments over the last 10 years, but the changes that have affected scientific research are just as dramatic—and in some ways similar. THE HUMAN GENOME AND PERSONALIZED MEDICINE The human genome project, which aimed to sequence the entire human genome—our full set of chromosomes—was initiated in 1990. In April 2003, the project announced that sequencing was essentially complete (a first draft was done in 2001), two years ahead of schedule. Understanding the human body at a genetic level has greatly influenced research to identify specific cellular pathways or confirm this over-expression before treatment and treatment of disease over the past decade mutations, create targeted therapies that may is initiated. This idea of not just considering as researchers have begun to inhibit a specific pathway, and develop feasible cancer by location or organ system, but also put this knowledge to use. tests to identify patients with particular by genetic profile has become increasingly Stuart Tobet, professor in the markers. The hopes that have begun to be important as the number of targeted cancer Department of Biomedical realized are that personalizing treatment will therapies (treatments that target specific Sciences at Colorado State make it both more efficient and effective. pathways) has exploded over the last 10 years. University, notes “Personalized The evolution of personalized medicine Dr. Paul Bunn, James Dudley Chair in medicine is a major trend that began with is perhaps most evident in the treatment of Cancer Research at the University of Colorado the sequencing of the genome.” Treatments cancer. Herceptin® (trastuzumab), approved Denver School of Medicine, notes that “There currently under investigation are developed by the FDA in 1998, was one of the first is definitely an opportunity for diagnostic specifically for groups of patients with drugs to be recommended for patients based companies,” who can develop companion particular genotypes or protein markers. on genetics. Specifically, Herceptin is only diagnostics for specific biomarkers that This work encompasses several non-trivial effective in patients with over-expression of identify the patients most likely to benefit from milestones from basic scientific research the HER2 gene, and thus patients are tested to a particular therapeutic. BIOSCIENCE COLORADO 2013/2014 5 “Some of the research we want to do on live tissue would generate gigabits of data per second, and that sort of bandwidth is not that far away.” As our understanding of how cells and systems work improves, the opportunity for different types of treatments beyond small molecules that act broadly on major systems emerges. Bunn sees both “the use of cell therapy and manipulated cells and immune GROWING collaboration ACROSS therapies” as emerging areas that are likely DISCIPLINES to continue to increase in importance over With an increased knowledge base has the next several years. Cell therapies, which also come increased complexity, making it actually use living cells as treatment, and less likely that any one individual, or even immune therapies, which may activate or one department, possesses all the information suppress a patient’s immune system to fight or skills needed for significant advances a disease, require a greater understanding in research. Consequently, collaborative of how individual cells work and the