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Contact: Lindsay Polak
Technology Transfer Office
University of Colorado
(303) 735-5518
lindsay.polak@cu.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (September 22, 2008)
Esprit Entrepreneur and CU Technology Transfer Office Present CU Innovation Alliance Breakfast
BOULDER, Colo. The Boulder Chamber of Commerce’s annual Esprit Entrepreneur will offer the CU Innovation Alliance Breakfast on October 1st, 8:00-9:30 a.m. at the Millennium Harvest House Hotel. This breakfast, in conjunction with the 24th annual Esprit Entrepreneur Event, will highlight emerging CU-Boulder technologies at all stages – in the lab, new startup companies and successful businesses. “It is a great opportunity to meet the players in CU’s technology community and see upcoming technology and entrepreneurs,” states Mark Weakley of Holme Roberts and Owen, sponsor of the breakfast.
Technology and companies presenting include:
Suvica will use a novel technology platform developed at CU-Boulder that recreates tissue microenvironment to discover new anti-cancer agents that work in combination therapy and target cancerous tissues preferentially over normal tissue.
Colorado Carbon Capture focuses on improving the efficiency of carbon capture from power plants and natural gas wells. .
Tissue Fusion, LLC is building laser devices to “weld” biological tissues together for wound closures.
LineRate Systems is rethinking multi-gigabit network appliance platforms to provide multi-gigabit application performance, increased flexibility, reduced time to market, and continuously decreasing cost.
3QMatrix, Inc. focuses on the development and commercialization of novel wound healing and drug delivery products using a proprietary product platform.
XenoPur Systems, Inc. is commercializing a CU-Boulder technology, the CARBONATOR, which provides metals decontamination, a substantial part of the water treatment process.
KMLabs Inc. is a leading manufacturer of ultra-short pulse lasers for the research market. Their 20-person team includes several of the world’s most renowned experts in laser technology.
Register for the CU Alliance Technology Breakfast and other Esprit events at www.esprit2008.com.
About the Technology Transfer Office
The CU Technology Transfer Office pursues, protects, packages, and licenses to business the intellectual property generated from research at CU. The TTO provides assistance to faculty, staff, and students, as well as to businesses looking to license or invest in CU technology. For more information about technology transfer at CU, visit www.cu.edu/techtransfer.
About the University of Colorado
The University of Colorado is a three-campus system with campuses in Boulder and Colorado Springs, and a Denver campus located in downtown Denver and at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. CU is a premier teaching and research university, ranked sixth among public institutions in federal research expenditures by the National Science Foundation. Academic prestige is marked by CU’s four Nobel laureates, seven Mac Arthur “genius” Fellows, 18 astronauts, 19 Rhodes Scholars and CU-Boulder’s ranking of 11th best public university in the world by the Institute for Higher Education. For further information, please visit http://www.CU.edu.
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