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Some breaking news from Oklahoma’s bioscience community: Oklahoma companies Moleculera Labs and Lipid Biologics are among a select few chosen to make their pitch to potential investors in Startup Stadium competition at the upcoming BIO show June 4-7 in Boston. Congratulations!Read more

Led by the Greater Oklahoma Chamber and OKBIO, with support from i2E and others, Oklahoma hosts a large pavilion with more than 40 Oklahomans helping our biotech startups take advantage of BIO’s unique opportunity to directly interact in person with business development leaders around the world.

For OU graduate student Amanda Curtis, the 2016 BIO show required some unique multi-tasking skills. Curtis greeted visitors to the Oklahoma exhibition booth, participated in Oklahoma Bioscience networking events and sat in on multiple partnering meetings with her colleagues from OU’s Office of Technology Development. All in a day’s work.

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At the BIO Convention, Oklahoma State University’s tech transfer office is pitching several projects from its research scientists for possible commercialization.

A presentation at a graduate research symposium in Oklahoma City led to one doctoral student’s trip to attend the international convention of the Bioscience Industry Organization.

A representative from the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore is attending the 2015 international convention of Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) to promote that organization’s work in agriculture.

By mid-day on Tuesday, people from China, Texas, Japan and New Mexico had met with Justin Briggs from Oklahoma City’s Accele BioPharma Inc., at the 2015 international convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organization .

The Noble Foundation annually has a presence among the group of about 80 people who showcase Oklahoma to the world through the OKBio booth on the floor of the BIO show

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 startups spun out of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

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.

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 sight of Karen Waddell

Oklahoma scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Tom Kupiec says the annual investment stakeholders make in the BIO show is a investment with potential for long-term payoff.

Biotechnology Industry Organization President James Greenwood emailed a letter highlighting the ways that the JOBS Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, can benefit life science companies.

If you possess strong STEM – science, technology, engineering or math – skills, here is a new jobs board designed just for you from the Biotechnology Industry Organization.