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KansasBio eNews
Volume 1, Issue 4
 President's
Message
From Angela Kreps,
KansasBio President
Take pride Kansas
- 30% market share in animal health
is remarkable! Kansas is a significant
contributor to our area's animal health
initiative, and we are making headlines
all over the industry - everything
from being chosen as the U.S. headquarters
for an international company to encouraging
our research university expansion,
and we are also nurturing our growing
companies, with capital and other
necessary resources. Kansas is making
a BIG difference.
Below are some of the stories I'm
sure you are following as we continue
to "think BIG in the biosciences."
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KansasBio invites
you to attend the Kansas Bioscience
Day dinner -- featuring a panel discussion:
KansasBio State of the Bioscience
State. The panel forum will be
the capstone celebration of a day-long
event in Wichita, September 7th, 2006.
More...
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Join KansasBio at
the Kansas State Fair!
 KansasBio
will host a public information forum Friday,
September 8, 12:00 p.m., at the Kansas
State Fair in Hutchinson, Kan. The forum
will be located in the Cottonwood
Court Building and is free to the public.
The panel
of agricultural and bioscience leaders will
discuss the biosciences and the industry
impact on the future of the Kansas agricultural
community. The public forum panel will include
industry experts, plus state officials and
leading scientists from Kansas research
universities including Dr. Fred Cholick,
Dean of the College of Agriculture at Kansas
State University; Dr. Ted Knous, Associate
Vice Chancellor of Research Administration
at Kansas University Medical Center; Dr.
David McDonald, Associate Vice President
of Research at Wichita State University.
Click
here to register.
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Dr. Bill Neaves, Stowers Institute, to speak
at KansasBio Annual Meeting
 Dr.
Bill Neaves, President and Chief Executive
Officer of the Stowers
Institute for Medical Research in Kansas
City, MO, will speak to the KansasBio Board
and Members, November 13, 2006. Neaves is
pictured here with Angela Kreps, Marie Jennings,
Jeff McCaffrey and Jeff Eisen. McCaffrey,
who grew up in Overland Park, suffered a
spinal cord injury in a car accident and
is working to educate about our area's promising
research in life sciences.
Dr. Neaves
will speak following the KansasBio Annual
meeting, which will take place at the Kansas
State campus in Manhattan, Kan. We hope
to have record attendance at the meeting!
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Kansas
City a Healthy Animal Health Site
Kansas City already has more animal health
and nutrition companies than any other region,
but area leaders want more. And they think
they can get them. More...
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KC
Homecoming 2006: Animal Health Industry
CEO Event
 A
special homecoming celebration welcomed
animal health industry executives who attended
the Central Veterinarian Conference in Kansas
City on August 28, 2006. This exclusive
gathering of animal health CEOs and industry
leaders from across the country was underwritten
by our members, Bayer
Healthcare Animal Health Division and
the Kansas
Bioscience Authority, among many others.
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Focus:
Rural Development, Bioscience & Biofuels
 Governor
Sebelius spoke at the groundbreaking
for the state's largest ethanol plant, Conestoga
Energy 110 million gallon ethanol production
facility near Liberal on August 3, 2006.
"Kansas has a growing
biofuels industry and we've made great strides
recently to move up in the ethanol production
rankings. We have several ethanol plants
in construction right now and by January
we'll have doubled our state's ethanol production
in just the last four years." Governor
Sebelius said, "renewable fuels also
have the potential to create jobs in rural
Kansas. We can see that at the ethanol plant
in Liberal, which will have a $2 million
annual payroll and employ roughly 50 people."
Congressman Jerry Moran
hosted the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development,
Thomas C. Dorr, in Kansas last week to visit
USDA Rural Development projects throughout
the state.
Congressman Moran said Kansas' First District
is one of the most rural districts in the
country, and it was important to have Under
Secretary Dorr spend time viewing the success
of Kansans in utilizing the programs his
department administers. Discussions focused
on rural and community development, as well
as the potential bio-energy projects have
in adding economic value to Kansas. Kansas
Bioscience Authority Chairman Clay Blair
attended the event in Holcomb, one of the
stops on the rural development tour.
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KSU Plans
Research Campus in Olathe
 Kansas
State University is looking to plant
its flag in Johnson County with a research
campus for the biosciences. The university
wants to build a satellite campus in Olathe
for graduate programs that will initially
emphasize the biosciences, animal health
and food safety and security. More...
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International
Company Expands in Lawrence, Kansas
IdentiGEN
Ltd., a leading provider of DNA-based
solutions to the agriculture and food industries
in Europe, today announced the formation
of a new subsidiary, IdentiGEN North America,
Inc., and the hiring of Donald R. Marvin
as president and chief executive officer.
More...
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Organizes Student Tour
KansasBio organized
a day long tour of area bioscience
organizations for a group of 18 students
and faculty from Kansas State University.
The group left Manhattan early July
11, 2006, and toured Hill's
Pet Nutrition in Topeka, before
traveling on to the Kansas City area
where they toured the Stowers
Institute for Medical Research,
Bayer
CropScience, and Physicians
Reference Lab. Students and faculty
who attended were:
Amelia Estepa Asperin, James Guikema,
Carol Shanklin, Tori
Everhart , Dennis Hall, Erica Hutfless,
William Lee, Amanda Lintz, Kevin Loo,
Diana Mina, Erika Pabon, Scott Palmitter,
Melissa Rainwater, Shredra Rakestraw,
Chad Richard, Melissa Rupp, Maureen
Ty and Meghan Ward.
If your group is
interested in arranging a similar
tour, please contact KansasBio at
info@kansasbio.org.
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