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5 BioChem Companies Win Scale-Up Help From MSU Holland Facility
August 03, 2011   HOLLAND – Five Michigan-based technology companies have been named the winners of this year's "Scale Up Michigan!" competition, sponsored by Lakeshore Advantage and the Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute, to help commercialize their products. The award recipients are: BoroPharm, Inc, GFT, LLC, Microcide Inc., Pleotint, LLC, and Vestaron Corporation.....

MSU Bioeconomy Institute holding competition for green bioengineering-related ideas

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP — Michigan companies with a good, green bioengineering-related idea can qualify for up to $25,000 in development and research assistance in a competition called Scale Up Michigan. Three companies will be selected by the Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute and Lakeshore Advantage from the best ideas submitted for the contest. ....


Nonprofit profile: Aqua Clara International
What it does: Aqua Clara distributes the technology to build water filters for as little as $8 in materials in Kenya, Nicaragua, Uganda and Mexico, where a shortage of clean water routinely causes illness, especially in children....

Single Source Procurement: Moving back-of-house ops off the minds of startups
Jan 26, 2011 - MiBiz --Think of it as getting in on the ground floor for the life sciences set....

MSU Bioeconomy Institute is new site for supplier’s West Mich. expansion
Single Source Procurement, a full-service, life-sciences instrument and supply room management company, is the newest tenant at the Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Mich....

$1.4M to continue MSU Bioeconomy Institute
The MSU Bioeconomy Institute has been given a $1.425 million state grant to continue its business development programs....

MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland attracts new alternative feedstock venture
Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute has attracted another biotechnology initiative to its multi-million-dollar laboratory . . . eFarms, created by four West Michigan partners . . . .

MSU Bioeconomy Institute opens in western Michigan | VPRGS

A portion of that grant supports Lakeshore Advantage, a Holland-area economic ... The MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Mich., occupies the only ... 
 

AFID Therapeutics is first tenant at MSU Bioeconomy Institute in ...
May 17, 2010 -- AFID Therapeutics is first tenant at MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland ... Lakeshore Advantage recently hired Randy Olinger to lead the business ...

Michigan State Bioeconomy Institute offers lab space to Holland ...
Apr 11, 2009 -- The Michigan State University Bioeconomy ... The incubator is a partnership between MSU and Lakeshore Advantage, ... 

21st Century Jobs Fund to Transform Holland Pfizer Lab into ...
Establishment of an institute in Holland to advance the bioeconomy, ... Lakeshore Advantage Corporation, a regional economic development agency and MEDC ... 

Pfizer site to become MSU-led bioeconomy research and development ...
May 9, 2007 ... “We're confident that MSU, Lakeshore Advantage and this research facility will ... In addition, the building sits next to Pfizer's former Holland ... The ultimate naming of the bioeconomy research institute will be ...
 
Going Green
Lakeshore Advantage is the economic development organization serving the ... will be available to companies operating in the Bioeconomy Institute – a fact ...

MSU Bioeconomy Institute seeks to add two top execs, could create ...
The search to fill two top executive positions is on as the new Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute on Howard Street in Holland moves toward a ...