Blake Trippet had a very good year in 2010. Then a senior at the University of Oklahoma, Trippet was team leader for team UniPhi, which won the Undergraduate Division of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition.
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There is a running joke among Oklahomans who have attended the annual Biotechnology Industry Organization convention that they have to travel a thousand miles to meet their neighbors.
Judy Gross knew that she had a date with blindness at some point in her future. But a new surgical procedure pioneered at Dean McGee Eye Institute has lessened the likelihood that glaucoma will rob her of her eyesight.
The Buffalo Lounge came to town this week in a networking event that provided a preview of things to come next month in Austin, Texas. This year’s Buffalo Lounge event will take place at the SXSW festival on March 7-16 in Austin.
San Francisco-based Crescendo Bioscience, which began life as Oklahoma City-based Riley Genomics, was sold earlier this week for $270 million to Myriad Genetics.
Everything came to a halt at my desk for about 30 minutes yesterday when the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s online publication, VeloCity, showed up in my email box.
Larry Kennedy subscribes to the random walk theory of scientific discovery. But the longtime VP of Technology Transfer at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is retiring on Feb. 14.
Editor’s note: i2E’s Michael Kindrat-Pratt, a Venture Advisor and manager of the SeedStep Angels investment group, recently spoke on angel investing at an event for entrepreneurial investors at The Forge in Tulsa.
Dr. Russell Rother’s plan to return to Oklahoma in the 1990s to work in academia was sidetracked by his success in helping build Connecticut-based Alexion Pharmaceuticals into a $26 billion company.
The countdown to BIO 2014 in San Diego begins this week for Oklahomans who will be part of the OKBio contingent at the giant industry convention.
There is a pioneering quality to Oklahoma City-based Altheus Therapeutics and the milestones the company has achieved in advancing a new drug therapy for a painful condition known as inflammatory bowel disease.
Oklahoma has two cities ranked among the top the nation’s top 10 for fostering young entrepreneurs, according to Forbes magazine.
Long before Wolf Scheible accepted a position as principal investigator for The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in 2012, he knew the Foundation by its reputation for groundbreaking work in plant genomics.
William Paiva lives and works in Tulsa as manager of the Oklahoma Life Science Fund venture capital fund that invests only in Oklahoma bioscience com-panies.
The recent SeedStep Angels Capital Forum in Tulsa provided a preview for potential members of the type of Oklahoma investment opportunities that angels see on a regular basis.
Here is some good news for i2E clients and economic development newsmakers across Oklahoma. A new Oklahoma-based news service called JustGoodNews.BIZ has discovered you.
Every day, around the world, about 2,000 people die from a fungal disease known as Cryptococcus. Yet I had never heard of it until I met Sean Bauman.
The inaugural 1 Million Cups event in Tulsa drew an audience of 80 people to a downtown coffee shop to hear presentations by a pair of entrepreneurs.
The 2013 OKBio BrewFest on Tuesday night turned out to be an awesome event for well more than 300 people who attended the event at the Harn Homestead in Oklahoma City.
Brad Stumph is a scientist, a wildlife biologist by training. So, naturally, he’s put his scientific knowledge to work brewing craft beer as co-founder of Oklahoma City-based Black Mesa Brewing Co.
