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Gates Center staff and others spent a significant amount of time in 2017 sharing our story with external and internal audiences. Among other efforts, we welcomed school groups and visitors to the Gates Center and the Gates Biomanufacturing Center, accepted invitations to address outside groups and worked with elected officials and others to further regenerative medicine initiatives.
Gates Center’s Lab Manager Charlie Wall arranged presentations and lab tours at the Gates Center’s headquarters on campus in Research Center 1 North for nearly 400 students and their teachers in 2017. Groups included long lines of young people hailing from the K-12 Aurora Public Schools’ Aurora LIGHTS Biotechnology Academy, Colorado Early Colleges, the CU Science Discovery Program, the Denver Public Schools X Program, Graland Country Day School, Mountain Ridge Middle School, Rocky Mountain Lutheran High School, St. Mary’s Academy and Valor High School.
Likewise, on-and-off campus visitors continued to stream in to hear about and see our Gates Biomanufacturing Facility across Montview Boulevard from campus. In particular, Gates Center Advisory Board member Rick Stoddard, past chair of the Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation, continued his crusade to assist us in expanding our reach, extending countless invitations to Children’s Hospital Colorado clinicians and foundation members. Between his efforts and those of others, we hosted 40 tours to introduce over 170 people to our facility, where close to 40 employees now work to manufacture protein and cell-based therapies for human trials.
In the meantime, Rotary groups continued to be particularly enthusiastic audiences for the Gates Center story. Gates
Center’s Executive Director Patrick Gaines crisscrossed the metropolitan area and beyond, addressing Rotarians at the following array of clubs: Anschutz, Castle Rock, Erie, Evergreen, Franklin Frederick, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Littleton and Twin Peaks in Longmont.
For the second year, the Gates Center also participated in a summer interactive learning opportunity for high school girlsinterestedinexploringhealthcareandsciencecareers, sponsoredbytheCenterforWomen’sHealthResearchand UCHealth. In this superb annual program, 60 young women spend a day on the Anschutz Medical Campus, during which they are introduced to a variety of facilities and health care professionals. During a morning session at the Gates
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Tim Gardner describes the state-of-the-art CliniMACS Prodigy system to Gates Biomanufacturing Facility visitors.