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Burrill says medicine\'s "future is now"
As we learn more about G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company, the funder of the $1 billion Elk Run biotechnology project in Pine Island, Minnesota, we'll share with readers.Burrill is publisher of The Journal of Life Sciences.According...
Mind-brain machines?
Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida say that people can use their brainwaves to "think" letters and words onto a computer screen. Dr. Jerry Shih said many researchers worldwide have used electrodes on the scalp to do simil...
Biotech CEO salaries rise as bonuses fall
FierceBiotech reports that CEOs of biotech companies have seen a rise in average base salary to $273,000 "up 3.2 percent from 2008 levels." This might be of interest to readers in the Pine Island, Minnesota region. The Pine Island City ...
The tough road for biotech companies
Of 350 public biotech companies today, 70 are trading below cash value, G. Steven Burrill, CEO of venture capital group Burrill & Company said in Golden Valley last week.Another 100 to 150 of those companies are trading below $100 million. Compa...
The world\'s biggest problems and biological solutions
Here's a tidbit from last week's presentation at a LifeScience Alley-sponsored event in Golden Valley, Minnesota.G. Steven Burrill, CEO of venture capital group Burrill & Company, said some of the biggest problems in the world today inc...
Burrill speaks in Golden Valley about Elk Run
G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company, took a few minutes to speak with me today (Friday November 20, 2009), despite about 100 Minnesota biotech entrepreneurs who each probably would have loved the same opportunity (and many got it). [S...
The tiff over TIF in Pine Island, Minnesota
At the Pine Island City Council meeting Tuesday night it became clear that there's a fly in the $1 billion Elk Run biotechnology project's ointment.That fly came from Olmsted County, where county commissioners are questions who will pay for...
Public Elk Run TIF meeting tonight — update
Please note: Tonight's meeting is at 7 p.m. Feel free to give me a hard time tonight --- the second part of my post might have made it appear that tonight's meeting starts earlier. But it's the regular time for tonight's cou...
Prions, elk — and deer?
I was fascinated by the Post-Bulletin article this week by John Weiss about testing of wild Pine Island, Minnesota-area deer shot by hunters.The deer are being tested for chronic wasting disease to see if the domestic elk herd at the site of the $1 b...
Pine Island to discuss TIF for Elk Run
The regular meeting of the Pine Island City Council at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the Pine Island, Minnesota City Hall will include discussion of tax increment financing for part of the Elk Run biotechnology project.Pine Island City Administrator Abraham A...
