ADVISORY BOARD

Our advisory board consists of representatives from the partner contract companies, legal, business, college and community. The board members ensure the directed progress of research projects and effective management practices.

BOARD MEMBERS

Wade Hull
ZARS
Director of Engineering

Lars Mouritsen
Sorenson Genomics
Lab Manager

James Thompson
Spendlove Research Foundation
VP of Research

Carsten Schmidt
Pharmanex
VP of Research

Eric Simon
Acme Biotechnology
CEO

Fred Jaeger
Affiliated Management
President

Doug Steel
DaVinci's Workshop
CEO

Don Porter
Salt Lake Community College
Dean of Business Services

Cynthia Talbot-Holz
Salt Lake Community College
Director of Sponsored Projects

Tamara Goetz
State Science Advisor, State of Utah

• Our Goals
• Management Team
• Interns
• Financial Information

Our Goals

1. Provide a challenging and exciting training environment for high school and college interns
2. Provide optimal access to all interns to increase success in their career path
3. Provide quality research services to contract company partners in a directed and timely fashion
4. Contribute to economic and workforce development for the State of Utah

Management Team

Our laboratory is managed by two PhD scientists, a project manager and a business team. Our start-up funding was provided by the National Science Foundation and our current corporate partners are ZARS, Spendlove Research, Sorensen Genomics, Pharmanex, Lifespan Technologies and ACME Biomedical.

• Craig Caldwell
  Department Chair
  Phone: 801-957-6350
  FAX: 801-957-6373
  Email: craig.caldwell@slcc.edu
                           
• Adam Blaszczak
  Director, InnovaBio
  Phone: 801-957-6323
  FAX: 801-957-6373
  Email:adam.blaszczak@slcc.edu

Interns

Our entusiastic interns come from college and high school biotech programs as well as college science programs.

• Ery Anguiano, Itineris Early College High School
• Ben Bailey, Murray High
• Robin Baker, Salt Lake Community College
• Ryan Bennet, Murray High
• Chris Collard, Hunter High
• Veronica Cuevas, Copper Hills High
• Chris Dillard, Murray High
• Jenessa Halliday, Olympus High
• Ben Jankowski, Salt Lake Community College
• Doug Knaphus, Salt Lake Community College
• Brandon Muhlestein, Itineris Early College High School
• Paul Murphy, Salt Lake Community College
• Johnny Ng, Itineris Early College High School
• Brian Orr, Murray High
• Cody Oswald, Granite Technical Institute
• Kasey Schuster, Salt Lake Community College
• Alex Taylor, Granite Technical Institute
• Todd VanDeventer, Murray High

Financial Information

InnovaBio received federal funding from the national Science Foundation for three years (July 2004-July 2007). These grant funds support salaries, consumables and capital equipment purchases as follows for the three year funding period:

• Year 1
  100% salaries, consumables and equipment purchases
• Year 2
  50% salaries, consumables (50% of salaries will be provided by SLCC and 50% of the consumables will be contributed by the partner contract companies)
• Year 3
  100% of salary support shifts to InnovaBio; contract companies provide 100% of consumables