Editor’s Note: This story was reported from the 2014 BIO International Convention in San Diego. By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2014, The Oklahoma Publishing Company SAN DIEGO — The 2014 Biotechnology Industry Organization convention is a whirlwind of potential success for Darren Head, president and CEO of Oklahoma City-based Cytovance Biologics Inc. Prospective customers areRead more
Editor’s note: This story was reported from the 2014 BIO International Convention in San Diego By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2014, The Oklahoma Publishing Company SAN DIEGO — The flow of visitors past the Oklahoma booth on the first day of the Biotechnology Industry Organization 2014 Convention brought many of them directly into the sightRead more
Editor’s note: This story was reported from San Diego during the 2014 BIO International Convention By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2014, The Oklahoma Publishing Company SAN DIEGO — Etched on a small wooden sign outside a biotechnology laboratory in La Jolla, Calif., just north of here, are the words “Sensulin, LLC,” a startup company withRead more
Editor’s note: This story was reported from the 2014 BIO International Convention in San Diego. By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2014, The Oklahoma Publishing Company SAN DIEGO — There were some natural concerns among Oklahomans back in 1998 when Texas native Tommy Harlan put together a venture capital fund and began investing in life science startupsRead more
By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2014, The Oklahoma Publishing Company When Madeleine Cunningham was a child growing up in Mississippi, her father drove her through the Southern forests and explained his work as a botanist and forestry expert. “He used to show me all of his experiments with trees,” Cunningham said. “He would talk aboutRead more
PolySkope Labs, located in Oklahoma City, is among the most sophisticated food safety laboratories in the world. Their pathogen detection tests target highly specific virulence factor sequences using the latest molecular biology techniques, offering the highest throughput, sensitivity, specificity and quickest turnaround time available. Listen to this edition of Oklahoma Innovations on the stations listed below orRead more
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2014, The Oklahoma Publishing Company In any economy, there is a multiplier as a dollar turns over and creates more dollars. An important aspect of every economic development plan is figuring out how to create multipliers in the economy. The “win” to a state from creating and growing new advancedRead more
