Thank you to the over 700 bioscience community executives that participated in BioWest 2008. A few highlights follow:
Congratulations to Oberon FMR, Inc. (Idaho Springs, CO) the winner of the 2008 Dorsey & Whitney Venture Showcase Award. Oberon FMR is preparing to produce a cost-effective, sustainable protein meal to serve as a replacement ingredient for fish meal in the production of feeds for the aquaculture industry – a consumer of more than $4 billion in fish meal.
Listen here for the Colorado Public Radio program where the six Venture Showcase finalists and Christine Shapard (to come) from the CBSA were interviewed.
G. Steven Burrill, Burrill and Company presented a future vision for the life science industry that was challenging and at the same time provided….. Click here for Burrill’s presentation.
Ernst & Young’s Washington Council partner Richard Meltzer has been a player in DC on federal health care issues for a long time. His presentation here provided the BioWest audience with an idea of what to expect from the new president, federal agencies and congress.
Over 300 individuals attended the CBSA’s first ever career fair and met with 24 companies looking for employees. This was so successful that it will become an annual event.
2008 BioWest Conference
T.R. Reid
November 13, 2008
Grand Finale Luncheon
11:30 am–1:00 pm
In Sick Around the World FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies —the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland—deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.
For more information, please see T.R. Reid's Website.
2008 BioWest Conference
The CBSA is hosting a Job Fair on the afternoon of November 14, 2008.
The Job Fair will be held at the Grand Hyatt (across the car park from main hotel)
555 17th Street, 37th Floor
For more information, please contact Leah Kientz.
In Sick Around the World FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies —the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland—deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures.
