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OUTREACH
Gates Center Advisory Board member Rick Stoddard has been a wonderful champion for all things Gates Center.
Making connections kept the Gates Center and our affiliated Gates Biomanufacturing Facility (GBF) remarkably busy in 2018, as the staff grew and product manufacturing for clinical trials kicked off officially in the spring. In past years, we have enjoyed welcoming school groups and visitors for tours of the Gates Center and the GBF as well as presenting to outside organizations and clubs. In 2018, we did much of the same, while focusing on reaching across campus to faculty researchers who might be contemplating a clinical trial, producing biomanufactured goods or looking for Gates Center benefits such as commercialization support or access to the Gates Grubstake Fund. We also strengthened our collaboration with Colorado State University’s School of Medicine and Veterinary Science as we prepared for the Zoobiquity Colorado conference in October. Finally, center staff responded to the constant flow of inquiry regarding
the availability and advisability of stem cell treatments, and shared updates on Gates Center’s operations and research with elected officials and the media.
Thanks to Dennis Roop, Charlie Wall, Michael Ferreros and members of the GBF staff, we arranged for on-campus presentations and tours for individuals and groups from: the Colorado Leaders, Interns, Mentors in Business (CLIMB) program; Colorado Early Colleges; Colorado School of Mines; CU Boulder President’s Leadership Class; CU Science Discovery Program; Friends School Boulder, and Kent Denver School, among others. In the meantime, Gates Center Advisory Board member and former Chair of Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation Rick Stoddard continued as our tireless champion introducing clinicians, researchers and hospital foundation members to the potential of our new reprogramming technology and Stem Cell Biobank and Disease Modeling Core, and to the capabilities of the GBF. Additionally, we conducted a campus survey to garner insight as to those on our Anschutz Medical Campus who are currently involved in regenerative medicine, as well as to those who might like to be. This feedback provided useful suggestions as to how our facilities and staff might best serve our members and the entire campus—much of which we incorporated into the strategic plan that we finalized in the fall.
As mentioned under “Collaboration,” planning and overseeing the Zoobiquity Colorado conference provided a unique opportunity to deepen our ties with the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University, and to reach out to other human medicine and veterinary contacts. In conducting research for our strategic plan, we looked at 15 academic regenerative medicine centers across the country and found that we are among only four out of 15 affiliated with a veterinary school, providing both
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