Thank you to the over 700 bioscience community executives that participated in BioWest 2008. A few highlights follow:

• Congratulations to Oberon FMR, Inc. (Idaho Springs, CO) the winner of the 2008 Dorsey & Whitney Venture Showcase Award. Oberon FMR is preparing to produce a cost-effective, sustainable protein meal to serve as a replacement ingredient for fish meal in the production of feeds for the aquaculture industry – a consumer of more than $4 billion in fish meal.

• Listen here for the Colorado Public Radio program where the six Venture Showcase finalists and Christine Shapard (to come) from the CBSA were interviewed.

• G. Steven Burrill, Burrill and Company presented a future vision for the life science industry that was challenging and at the same time provided….. Click here for Burrill’s presentation.

• Ernst & Young’s Washington Council partner Richard Meltzer has been a player in DC on federal health care issues for a long time. His presentation here provided the BioWest audience with an idea of what to expect from the new president, federal agencies and congress.

• Over 300 individuals attended the CBSA’s first ever career fair and met with 24 companies looking for employees. This was so successful that it will become an annual event.