Posts By: Bill Turpin

EternoGen Aesthetics, LLC developer and manufacturer of advanced collagen scaffolds, announces the successful completion of its financial round. It has secured $5MM to prepare for the 2016 European commercialization of Rapid Polymerizing Collagen (RPC Pure-Collagen), the first of a rich pipeline of products delivering natural results through Bio-Dermal Restoration in facial aesthetics. This financing enables RPC Pure-Collagen to complete the…

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Bayer CropScience recently announced a licensing agreement with Missouri Innovation Center client Elemental Enzymes. Founders Brian and Katie Thompson started Elemental Enzymes in 2011 based on research conducted at the Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center at the University of Missouri. They have been a resident client at the MU Life Science Business Incubator since…

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The Missouri Innovation Center has agreed to sponsor Startup Weekend in Columbia again this year. Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable. The Columbia event takes place this year on Sept 11-13 at Museau Building, 3500 Buttonwood Dr in Columbia. The community is…

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Dr Jake Halliday recently joined Tensive Controls as CEO and Chairman. Dr Halliday will assume corporate business and management tasks along with Tensive founder, Dr Ken Gruber, who will continue as Chief Scientific Officer. Dr Halliday served on the Board of Missouri Innovation Center from 1993, and as its CEO from 2004 – 2014. Dr…

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University of Missouri’s Chancellor Loftin discussed expansion plans for the Life Science Business Incubator in an interview for the July 24, 2015 issue of Columbia Business Times. In the interview, Loftin notes that “The incubator is maxed out right now in the wet labs.” He listed his goals to “expand the reach of the incubator…

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The MU Life Science Incubator at Monsanto Place was named one of the top 5 life science incubators in the United Staes by Entrepreneurship.org. The other top incubators are located in New York, Boston, and San Francisco. You can read the entire article at: Entrepreneurship.org