The Institute for Systems Medicine has been recognized
as Organization of the Year by Technet and Greater Spokane Incorporated. The Catalyst Awards
acknowledge contributions by individuals, organizations and businesses that demonstrate the
utilization of technology and innovation to bring economic development to the region.
"I am excited that the Institute for Systems Medicine is being honored as Spokane’s Organization
of the Year. This award is really a tribute to the many people and organizations that, over
several years, provided the financial and intellectual support that made the ISM a reality,”
said Anthony Bonanzino, ISM chief executive officer. “In the years ahead, the Institute will be
foundational to advancing Spokane's biomedical research platform and expanding the region's
economic base."
This year’s awards were announced on Oct. 23 at the LaunchPad Oktoberfest Celebration and
Catalyst Awards. This event is presented by LaunchPad Inland Northwest, LLC, in association
with Technet and Greater Spokane Incorporated.
Other winners include:
• Clean/Green Company of the Year: Avista Corporation
• Company of the year: Absolute Aviation
• Clean/green organization: City of Spokane
• Mentor of the year: Steve Salvatori, founder of the Spokane Entrepreneurial Center
• Innovators of the year: Dr. Bassem Bejjani and Lisa Shaffer, founders of Signature Genomic
Laboratories
The Spokesman Review
October 31, 2008
Bonanzino takes medical research CEO post
By Tom Sowa
Longtime Spokane business leader Anthony Bonanzino is the new CEO of
the Institute for Systems Medicine, a nonprofit effort that hopes to develop cutting-edge medical research.
Bonanzino retired earlier this year as CEO at contract pharmaceutical company HollisterStier
in north Spokane. He'd held that position for 18 years.
The ISM board is asking Bonanzino to help develop a strong business plan and move toward
financial independence.
more...
The Journal of Business
The issue dated March 20, 2008
Strategic advisory board will set blueprint, recruit faculty
for new institute
By Richard
Ripley
The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority has
named a strategic advisory board of top national health-care research
figures to help guide its efforts to set up an organization that will
advance the application of and research into the latest forms of medicine in
Spokane.
The planning authority says the new board will propose a
blueprint for how the planned institute could interact with health-care
providers and universities here to maximum effect and also will help recruit
a chief scientific officer and other faculty members.
more...
Friday, December 14, 2007
Washington CEO
Spokane Follows
Seattle's Lead Into
P4 Medicine
In Spokane, a consortium
headed by developer John Stone is catalyzing the Inland Empire around the
business opportunities and educational requirements of digital medicine.
"Our intent is to create a stand-alone institute that works
on P4 Medicine," Stone says. Really, this is a plan that is built on the
core competencies of our area. There's a lot of buzz."
The nexus for the region's P4 Medicine focus is Stone's Institute for
Systems Medicine (ISM), a research center that was inspired by Leroy Hood's
Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle. According to Stone, the
vision for ISM is "a regional institute including northern Idaho and western
Montana. There are four research institutes in the Puget Sound area, and
there are none in the Spokane area. It really is the first time we've tied a
ribbon around education and medicine and focused them into an institute."
more...
The Journal of Business
The issue dated December 06, 2007
Looking for opportunities in Olympia
Family Leave Act, budget surplus will be hot topics in ™08 legislative
session
By
Emily
Proffitt
Spokane-area business advocates say their top priorities
heading into the next session of the Washington Legislature will be to
protect budget items approved last year, seek more money for items that
weren™t fully funded, and watch for additional opportunities to fund
programs and capital projects here.
Although they aren™t expecting much additional money to be
available during a non-budget-writing year, they say they™ll seek some
additional funding for job-training, transportation projects, and salary
increases for professors at state universities here, among other things.
more...
Debugging
the Body
The
emerging
ability to spot disease networks in humans - and reprogram them - will
upturn the medical establishment
and
create new
business
opportunities
If Leroy Hood is right - and, with
his track record, you'd be unwise to bet against him - our current brand of
medicine will change so radically in the next 10 to 15 years that all health
care industries, even medical schools, will need to restructure almost every
aspect of their operations. Not only will routine visits to your doctor
resemble what Hood calls "Star Trek Medicine," but an array of today's most
successful businesses will face a life-or-bankruptcy choice: Adapt to the
needs and opportunities of the coming revolution, or blithely bet that their
20th-century ways will somehow let them ignore 21st-century developments in
science, technology and diagnostics that will seem almost magical by today's
treatment standards.
more...
The Journal of Business
ISM hopes to open in 36 to 48 months
Systems medicine group to launch recruiting effort for top
national scientist
By Richard Ripley
The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority, fresh
from persuading the Washington Legislature to approve a long-term
multimillion-dollar funding package, hopes to open its planned biomedical
research institute in Spokane™s University District within the next 36 to 48
months.
As part of its drive to open the nonprofit institute by
then, the authority has begun preparing to recruit a chief scientific
officer whose name would resonate in the medical and biomedical communities
nationally, says Lewis Rumpler, its chief operating officer.
Earlier this year, the Legislature approved diversion of 0.2
percent of the sales -and-use taxes collected in a Washington county in
which the state creates a Health Sciences and Services Authority, Rumpler
says. The ISM Planning Authority expects that county will be Spokane County,
and it™s counting on the revenue stream from such a tax diversion plus funds
from private and corporate sources to raise a total of $55 million by a year
from now, says Rumpler. He says it needs such a war chest to attract the
chief scientific officer it wants.
more...
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Washington Legislature
passes Health Sciences and Services Authority (HSSA) legislation
Spokane,
WA “ In a major legislative victory that will
infuse eastern Washington
with funding for bio-tech research and health services, the Washington State
Legislature passed the HSSA bill with strong bipartisan support.
The legislation was supported by the Institute for Systems Medicine
and Project Access.
more....
|
Front row: Senator Lisa Brown (Washington State - 3rd District) -
Dr. Sam Selinger (Project Access) - Governor Christine Gregoire -
Representative Don Barlow (Washington State - 6th District) - Jeff
Nelson (Empire Health Services) - Senator Chris Marr (Washington
State - 6th District)
Back row: John Driscoll (Project Access) - Tom Paine (Avista Corp)
- Lewis Rumpler (ISM, COO) - John Stone (ISM, Chair) -
Representative Timm Ormsby (Washington State - 3rd District)
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Pioneering Collaboration
Spokane, WA “ The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority (ISMPA)
announced today a pioneering collaboration to develop world class
infrastructure for the future Institute for Systems Medicine and to begin a
research program leading to new tools addressing the enormous challenges in
the fields of bio and medical informatics.
more....
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Biomedical research may get boost
Legislature OKs sales tax money for proposed
Spokane health authority
Spokesman
Review -
Parker Howell,
Staff writer
April 28, 2007
A Spokane private, nonprofit biomedical research center is a prime contender
for a potential tens of millions of dollars Washington legislators
authorized this session to spur medical research and economic development, a
local lawmaker and center leader said.
more...
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Gonzaga - Faculty "Spirit
Newsletter" April 07
Systems medicine plan gathers momentum
The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority (ISMPA) has
announced the first million dollars in private donor pledges, bringing
current backing for the medical research institute to $4 million.
more...
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Friendster for Proteins
Forbes.com
Robert Langreth and Matthew Herper
03.12.07
Understanding how the body's tiny components communicate is
opening up vast territory in drug research.
Peter Sorger spent eight years developing new laboratory gadgets and
arcane mathematical theorems to explain how networks of genes and
proteins can go awry, causing cancer, arthritis and other diseases.
more.....
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WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2007-02 (February 14, 2007)
Funding Mechanism Proposed for Institute for Systems
Medicine and Project Access.
Backers of the Institute for Systems Medicine (ISM) and Project Access are
introducing legislation to create a Health Sciences and Services Authority
(HSSA).
more...
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Power 25
Spokane's Most Powerful People in Business
by Amy McCaffree
Spokane Business Catalyst March 07
Lewis Rumpler, COO of the Institute for Systems
Medicine is highlighted in this recent article, alongside John Stone of SRM
Development (chairman of the board), Fred Brown of NextIt (treasurer), and
Scott Morris of Avista Corp (steering committee).
more...
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Healthy Economics *
Amy McCaffree
Spokane Business Catalyst Sept 06
Who provides 21 percent of Spokane County jobs.
equivalent to 53,500 positions, and has a $1.8 billion
total impact on the county's income?
more...
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Betting on Research
*
By Suzanne Schreiner
InHealthNW 09.06
A lot can happen in three years. What began with an
address to the Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce by
renowned systems biologist Leroy Hood in September
of 2003 now has morphed into $3 million in funding,
regional cooperation and a place at Riverpoint for
the Institute for Systems Medicine (ISM) to call
home. Lewis Rumpler, chief operating officer of ISM,
says the Institute is important to the entire
region, and judging from the long list of
supporters, others seem to agree. Among health care
providers, higher education, government and business
leaders, there™s nary a naysayer to be found. The
spirit of Spo-kan™t seems to have faded into the
ether.
more....
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A Fresh Perspective
*
By Suzanne Schreiner
InHealthNW 09.06
Michael Skinner says Spokane doesn™t have a research center. It has talented
researchers but no critical mass, which he believes is a significant
hindrance to clinical research in the area. And what might fill that void?
The Institute for Systems Medicine (ISM), he believes, and the research
faculty it will bring to its new home on the Riverpoint Campus.
It should be said that Skinner, a faculty member at WSU™s molecular
biosciences department, serves as senior scientific advisor to ISM, so he
may have a bias or two. But he points out that ISM also has the advantage of
strong links to WSU and will be in a position to utilize the research
capabilities in Pullman.
more...
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