April 2011 Newsletter Now Available

Top stories from TTO's April newsletter:

Four CU Companies Receive Tech Commercialization Grants from State of Colorado
Four companies formed around technologies developed at the University of Colorado were recently selected to receive funding from Colorado's Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program. The company grant program (BDEG-Co), launched in 2007 by the State of Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, provides early-stage matching “seed” grants to enable the development and commercial validation of promising technologies that are licensed from Colorado research institutions by Colorado based start-up companies.

CU-based companies receiving funding in this round:2CTech Corp., BioAMPS International,Mosaic Biosciences and Suvica.

OPXBIO, Dow Chemical Team to Develop Bioacrylic
CU licensee OPX Biotechnologies Inc. has partnered with Dow Chemical Co. in an effort that could result in the industrial-scale production and eventual commercialization of acrylic products made from corn and cane sugar. OPX signed a joint development agreement with Dow to prove the technical and economic viability of an industrial-scale process to produce acrylic acid from a fermentable sugar feedstock and have the resulting product have equal performance qualities to that of petroleum-based acrylic acid.

BioSIPs: A Conversation with Julee Herdt and Kellen Schauermann
Making a major leap from research and development to green building material and commercialization of a product, CU professor Julee Herdt and former CU grad student Kellen Schauermann are innovators in developing cleaner, stronger, healthier ways to construct buildings. Herdt and Schauermann currently have the first BioSIP prototype building construction underway with a team of CU grads and students, and have founded BioSIPs Inc., a green building material design and architecture firm.

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