| 7/9/01 |
The Scientist |
Synergy in St. Louis Business incubators aim to breed
biotech startups |
| 6/25/01 |
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Creating Jobs in Clusters Economic development officials
here are embracing the concept of industry clusters --
geographic concentrations of interconnected companies. While
St. Louis has a few established clusters, two others
-- plant and life sciences and information technology -- are
emerging. Officials seek to build on the region's strength in
those areas and make St. Louis attractive to promising young
companies. |
| 6/6/01 |
Wall Street
Journal |
A Concentration of Firms In One Industry Seen Spurring
Jobs, Growth In September, the St. Louis Regional Chamber
and Growth Association unveiled its effort to build a plant-
and life-sciences cluster, which a $200,000 study identified
as a regional strength. |
| 5/8/01 |
St. Louis
Business Journal |
Biotech startup receives $1.4 million from backers; Derek
Rapp, ex-Monsanto executive, joins as CEO Divergence, which
is developing technology to neutralize harmful parasites, has
raised $1.4 million in its initial round of fund raising. |
| 4/30/01 |
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch |
St. Louis firms are building science labs for the region's
"BioBelt" The aim is to offer a significant amount of wet
laboratory space - where experiments are performed - as well
as dry labs - where computer work is done - for both home-grown
businesses and for companies relocating here. |
| 1/9/01 |
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Director of Danforth Plant Center Wins Agricultural Prize,
Will Share $100,000 Roger N. Beachy, director of the Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center, was awarded on Monday the 2001
Wolf Prize for agriculture. |
| 12/31/00 |
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Life Sciences Hold the Keys to Regional EnterpriseTo
effectively accelerate the creation of high-value life science
jobs, we must first reach critical mass in four areas: research
and development spending, qualified work force, physical infrastructure,
and risk equity capital. |
| 9/4/00 |
St.
Louis
Business Journal |
Nidus Center adds TSV, MedCentral, Shurjo Medical
to incubator The Nidus Center for Scientific Research has
added three health care-related start-ups to its plant and life
science incubator on the Monsanto campus. |
| 5/24/00 |
St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch |
InvestMidwest wants to give more visibility to
St. Louis entrepreneurs |
| 4/24/00 |
St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Nidus Center begins germination today Just
in time for spring planting, the Nidus Center for Scientific
Enterprise is holding its grand opening today as a business
incubator for biotechnology companies. |
| 4/23/00 |
St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Entrepreneurs hope to make this region a star
in the biotech constellation |
| 2/00 |
St.
Louis Commerce Magazine |
Hatching New Business Area incubators nurture
start-up companies into mature businesses. |
| 2/7/00 |
St.
Louis
Business Journal |
Nidus Center Signs First Tenant The newly
opened Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, a nonprofit incubator
for plant and life sciences companies, has secured its first
start-up business and expects to sign a second tenant soon. |
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| 11/4/99 |
Press Release |
NIDUS BOARD MEMBER
ROGER N. BEACHY NAMED RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (R&D) MAGAZINE'S
1999 SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR.
ST. LOUIS--Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D., president of the Donald Danforth
Plant Science Center, has been named Research & Development
(R&D) Magazine's 1999 Scientist of the Year. |
| 10/99 |
St.
Louis Commerce Magazine |
Planting the Seeds... The St. Louis region
has the potential to become a world center for plant sciences,
biotechnology and life sciences. |
| 9/20/99 |
Press Release |
RCGA to Host
National Entrepreneurs! Tour of America Live Radio/Internet
Webcast at Fister Lauberth Advertising and Nidus Center
St. LOUIS--The St. Louis Region will be featured on nationally-syndicated
radio in more than 30 cities, and worldwide on the internet,
in conjunction with partnering media outlets CNNfn television,
Business 2.0 magazine, MacWorld magazine, and
the Investors Business Daily financial and business newspaper,
on Friday, Sept. 24 and Saturday, Sept. 25, as part of the Kauffman
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership-sponsored "Entrepreneurs!
Tour of America" program. |
| 9/1/99 |
St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Tobacco money could give boost to research
in the life sciences |
| 8/2/99 |
St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Plant science center breaks ground today |
| 8/2/99 |
Saint
Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Monsanto Is Building an Incubator to Hatch
Plant Science Businesses. |
| 8/2/99 |
St.
Louis
Post-Dispatch |
Head of New Nidus Center Began
Career at Monsanto. |
| 7/5/99 |
Forbes
Magazine |
Yes, there is a pulse |
| 4/99 |
NBIA
Review |
Incubator Roundup: NBIA Members
Incubate Incubation in Corporate America... In St. Louis,
Bob Calcaterra is helping Monsanto Corp. develop an incubator
for life-sciences and biotechnology startups. |
| 4/99 |
Press Release |
HOK and Paric
Team Seeking First "Green Building" Certification in Missouri
with $8.5 Million Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise--First
Plant Science Incubator in Midwest
ST. LOUIS--A team led by Monsanto Company, architect Hellmuth,
Obata and Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK) and general contractor Paric
Corp. is striving to obtain Missouri's first "green building"
certification through construction of one of the first plant
science business incubators in the Midwest. |
| 2/11/99 |
Press Release |
PRESIDENT/CEO
ANNOUNCED FOR NEW INCUBATOR
Construction under way of 40,000-square-foot green facility.
ST. LOUIS, February 11, 1999 -- Dr. Robert J. Calcaterra
has been named president and chief executive officer of Nidus
Center for Scientific Enterprise, the $8.5 million, 40,000-square-foot
business incubator currently under construction in Creve Coeur.
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