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David Twiddy Reporter – Kansas City Business Journal Officials at the Bioscience and Technology Business Center in Lawrence are looking to expand the business incubator more than two years ahead of schedule. The $7.5 million, 21,000-square-foot facility on the University of Kansas’    West Campus opened in August 2010 and already is full with nine [...]

Even in the high-tech bioscience industry, an old blue-collar axiom still applies: Strike while the iron is hot. Local economic development leaders are striking while the iron is hot when it comes to aggressively pursuing plans for a $10 million expansion of the Bioscience and Technology Business Center on Kansas University’s West Campus. Douglas County [...]

Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a drug-discovery company, will move into the Bioscience and Technology Business Center at Kansas University, and bring the incubator space on KU’s West Campus to 100 percent occupancy. Ligand will bring two employees to the facility, but the number could grow later this year. The BTBC opened in summer 2010. Ligand purchased Lenexa-based [...]

  Assurant Employee Benefits becomes seventh tenant at BTBC Main Facility November 15, 2011 LAWRENCE — The Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas (BTBC at KU) Main Facility has landed its seventh tenant – and this time, it’s a Fortune 500 company. Assurant Employee Benefits, a division of insurance leader Assurant, [...]

BTBC names new system vice president, executive director of KUMC facility November 8, 2011 LAWRENCE — The Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas (BTBC at KU) has a new system vice president and executive director at its KU Medical Center facility. Frank Kruse, a business leader with more than 20 years [...]

  Mencuro Therapeutics moves into BTBC Expansion Facility October 17, 2011 LAWRENCE — The Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas will house another biotech company with ties to the university. Mencuro Therapeutics Inc., a drug development company focused on pain treatment, has leased space at the BTBC Expansion Facility, located at [...]

KU Med’s Bioscience & Technology Business Center has official opening Kansas City Business Journal by David Twiddy Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 The University of Kansas Medical Center’s Bioscience & Technology Business Center officially opened its doors Tuesday, looking to attract more life sciences-based startups. A group of university administrators and researchers, as well as [...]

Bioscience company Gyrasol becomes sixth tenant at BTBC at KU Main Facility Sept. 1, 2011 LAWRENCE — The Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas (BTBC at KU) Main Facility has secured its sixth tenant. Gyrasol Technologies, a molecular diagnostics and drug testing company, has relocated from Santa Fe, N.M., to the [...]

August 30th, 2011   Argenta, a global provider of drug development services and contract product manufacturing for the animal health industry, announced today it will locate a new lab facility and office in the KC Animal Health Corridor. “The KC Animal Health Corridor location fits perfectly with Argenta’s company vision of delivering animal health development [...]

Recently, Matthew McClorey, President and CEO of the Lawrence Regional Technology Center, presented at a seminar on commercializing technology to the Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation at the University of Kansas.  To view the presentation in its entirety, please click the link at the bottom of the page.   Mr. McClorey serves as the President [...]