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By Chad Lawhorn — Lawrence Journal-World November 11, 2010 The latest set of directions on Garmin’s GPS units leads to Kansas University’s West Campus. The leader of the Bioscience and Technology Business Center on KU’s West Campus confirmed Wednesday that Olathe-based Garmin Ltd. has signed a deal to open a software office in the incubator. [...]

By Chad Lawhorn — Lawrence Journal-World November 11, 2010 Here’s a look at the two newest tenants at the Bioscience and Technology Business Center. BrightEHR has developed an electronic records system specifically for mental health centers. The mental health niche makes it rare in the growing electronic medical records industry, but its most unusual aspect [...]

By Mark Fagan — Lawrence Journal-World October 8, 2010 A new company developing software and records-management services for behavioral health centers will start making calls on possible customers next week, all from its new home in a business incubator on Kansas University’s West Campus. One employee. One product. Unlimited potential. “Within two years, we expect [...]

By Chad Lawhorn —Lawrence Journal-World September 22, 2010 A Fortune 500 company is close to signing a deal to locate 15 employees in a new incubator facility jointly developed by Kansas University and local governments, city and KU leaders were told Tuesday. Lawrence city commissioners and Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little met Tuesday afternoon at the Bioscience [...]

The $7.5 million building will provide lab space to businesses that need it.

By Chad Lawhorn — Lawrence Journal-World August 29, 2010 Bear with me, this story isn’t about West Lafayette, Ind. It is about Lawrence’s future. But Lawrence’s crystal ball, these days, might be found in the home of the Purdue Boilermakers. In this smallish university community about an hour outside Indianapolis, a nice piece of ground [...]

By Chad Lawhorn — Lawrence Journal-World August 29, 2010 A Dublin-based computer technology firm has become the first tenant for Lawrence’s new bioscience and technology incubator. Officials with Propylon confirmed that they are in the process of moving into the new incubator on Kansas University’s West Campus. The company specializes in creating computer systems for [...]

By Chad Lawhorn — Lawrence Journal-World August 29, 2010   Bear with me, this story isn’t about West Lafayette, Ind. It is about Lawrence’s future. But Lawrence’s crystal ball, these days, might be found in the home of the Purdue Boilermakers.   Jackie and Toby Eastland of Lawrence stepped into one of the dry labs [...]

By Christine Metz — Lawrence Journal-World April 29, 2010 On a cold late-winter morning, the humming of heavy machinery and banging of steel floated through Kansas University’s West Campus. On a hillside along Becker Drive, almost tucked into a grove of trees, was the concrete and steel skeleton of the 20,000-square-foot Bioscience & Technology Business [...]

Feb. 25, 2010 Contact: Mike Krings, University Relations, (785) 864-8860 LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas’ status as a national leader in pharmacy research was reaffirmed today with the announcement that KU is second in the rankings of schools of pharmacy that receive National Institutes of Health research funding. KU’s School of Pharmacy was awarded [...]