March 2008 - Next Kalamazoo BioTuesday to be held April 8. (PDF - 419kb) Kalamazoo BioTuesday presents "Understanding the Other Side of the Table: Legal implications of Partnering." The free program is sponsored by Miller Canfield, the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center, and MichBio. Register online at www.michbio.org/Events
January 2008 - First Kalamazoo BioTuesday Draws Enthusiastic Crowd. Nearly 90 people attended the kick-off session of Kalamazoo BioTuesday, a new quarterly networking and educational forum for life sciences companies and service providers in southwestern Michigan. The program is sponsored by the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center and MichBio.
October 2007 - California Company Relocates R&D Center To Kalamazoo Incubator. (PDF - 283kb) Emiliem, Inc., an oncology drug development company, has relocated its R&D Center from Emeryville, California to the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center.
August 2007 - Anti-cancer drug shows promising results. ProNAi Therapeutics Inc. said Thursday that it had achieved positive results in its first mechanism-of-action studies for its cancer drug candidate.
June 2007 - PharmOptima graduates! (PDF - 56kb) SMIC is proud to announce that PharmOptima has successfully completed the incubation program and will be moving to its own location five miles away.
June 2007 - The Southwest Michigan Innovation Center is pleased to announce the admission of a new tenant into the incubator program. (PDF - 58kb). VENOMIX, Inc. has chosen the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center in the Western Michigan University Business, Technology, & Research Park as the location to commercialize its technology.
May 2007 - VENOMIX becomes SMIC's newest tenant and the fourth investment for Southwest Michigan First's Life Science Venture Fund (PDF - 58kb). Our client company, VENOMIX, now has the space and funds to get off to a great start in Michigan.
April 2007 - NanoVir Receives $1M Grant from the National Institutes of Health (PDF - 14kb) The funding came as a Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
March 2007 - Kalexsyn to Build New Headquarters in Kalamazoo (PDF - 24kb) Kalexsyn, a medical chemistry contract research firm founded by former Pfizer scientists, broke ground today on a new headquarters building to support its current operation and provide additional space for future growth as the company capitalizes on the pharmaceutical outsourcing trend.
March 2007 - How Kalamazoo survived Pfizer cuts. The Detroit News points to SMIC as one of the big leaders in Kalamazoo's rebound from past pharma fiascos.
March 2007 - PharmOptica named one of Michigan's 50 Companies to Watch! "Michigan 50 Companies to Watch celebrates high-performing, second-stage companies in the state." Use the link above to learn more and see the entire list (in alphabetical order).
October 2006 - AureoGen Graduates! AureoGen Biosciences has expanded and will soon move to its own facility, making it the first company to graduate from the Center. Read more about AureoGen's graduation by clicking on the link to the Kalamazoo Gazette's article above or click here for an alternative article in PDF format (45 kb).
September 2006 - Governor visits SMIC. (PDF - 148kb) Gov. J. Granholm takes a tour and officially awards ProNAi Therapeutics with $3.2 million.
September 2006 - SMIC announces new president and CEO. (PDF - 168kb) Fred Einspahr will be SMIC's new leader as he fills the void left by the departure of Doug Morton as President and CEO. Get to know Fred in the Staff Bios section of this website.
September 2006 - Researchers here land $6M in state grants. SMIC's own tenant, ProNAi Therapeutics Inc. is expected to receive nearly $3.3 million to fund more research.
August 2006 - New Life Science Start-Up Receives Funding and Opens Lab. zuSyn, Inc. opened its Kalamazoo laboratory today at the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center.
May 2006 - Kalexyn Featured in Inc. Magazine: Turning the Tables. The outsourcing trend almost killed Kalexsyn--until its founders made globalization work in their favor. (View/Download PDF Version - 663kb.)
May 2006 - Kalamazoo is named a biotech hotspot in Drug Discovery News!
April 2006 - Proteos, Inc., has been recognized as one of the “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch”. Founded in 2003, Proteos is involved in the production and purification of high quality proteins and peptides for research and therapeutic applications. They are important targets for discovery of new drugs, and in some cases they serve as drugs in their own right. Proteos has a customer base that extends world-wide and includes almost all of the large pharmaceutical companies in the United States.
April 2006 - SMIC Honored With An NBIA 2006 Incubator Innovation Award. Forget the pencils and paper clips. The storeroom at the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center in Kalamazoo, Mich., instead stocks chemicals, solvents and other scientific supplies needed by its early-stage life-science clients.
March 2006 - Wish You Were Here (PDF - 4Mb). Kalamazoo's life sciences future is highlighted as an example of how to overcome adversity in this month's issue of The Scientist.
February 2006 - ADMETRx Featured in Windhover. "ADMETRx is building new and improved ADME tools. The technology, a mix of wet lab analysis and computer modeling, attempts to move beyond the go/no go decisions typical of ADME.Instead the company offers clients a ranking of a drugs being tested based on the individual properties being tested."
June 2005 - Kalamazoo Companies Emerge as Big Winners in MTTC Funding Awards. Four Kalamazoo-based proposals - including three from tenants of the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center (SMIC) - received part of the Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor funding awarded by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm.
June 2005 - Kalsec Joins SMIC's Tenant Roster. The Southwest Michigan Innovation Center has announced its latest tenant - the 15th company to occupy space at the wet lab facility.
February 2005 - Tech plan creates jobs, risk. The battle is on to convince voters whether Gov. Jennifer Granholm's plan to invest nearly 3 billion of their tax dollars in job creation is worth the entrepreneurial risk.
December 2004 - Tax Exemption for SMIC and its tenants. The Kalamazoo City Commission voted unanimously to approve a tax exemption for the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center and its tenants.
December 2004 - Kalexsyn Scientist Honored for Lifetime Achievement. Dr. Jackson B. Hester, was honored with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement award at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Achievement Awards in Boston.
December 2004 - Kalexsyn Completes Third Expansion. Just one year after starting construction on laboratory space at the Southwest Michigan Innovation Center, biosciences startup Kalexsyn, Inc. has expanded twice and added more than a dozen employees to its team of former Pharmacia scientists.
November 2004 - SMIC's Newest Start-Up Company Banks on Scientific Reputation of Its Founders. Southwest Michigan First has announced the formation of yet another biopharmaceutical company under the leadership of two world-renowned former Pharmacia scientists.
October 2004 - Kalamazoo Start-Up Receives $1.6 Million to Fund Research. AureoGen Biosciences, Inc., receives two significant grants.
June 2004 - NanoVir Inc. Receives Prestigious Research Grant. NanoVir Inc. has received an "Advanced Technology" small business grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health.
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