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Bioscience land Protection Advisory Board
September 18, 2008
Town of Jupiter
210 Military Trail
1:30 p.m.
Roll Call
2. Approval of May 15, 2008 Minutes
3. Comprehensive Plan Status -
City of Riviera Beach
Town of Lake Park
4. Scripps Update (by Shannon LaRocque -Baas)
5. Branding /Marketing Subcommittee Update (Lisa De La Rionda)
6. Update from BDB (Andrew Duffell)
7. Update State Funding Corp. Uenni Garrison)
8. New Business
9. Public Comment
10. Next Meeting
November 20, 2008 - City of Palm Beach Gardens - meeting date
conflicts with the FAC Legislative Conference, (next scheduled
meeting is January 15, 2009)
11. Adjournment
Patricia Weaver
From: Lisa DeLaRionda
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:22 AM
To: Patricia Weaver
Cc: Lisa DeLaRionda; Allyson Maiwurm; Andrew Duffell; Denise Jakows; Donna Giuliana; Kate
Moretto; Maryann Guarascio; Patrick Sullivan; Shannon LaRocque; Theresa Klco; Verdenia
Baker; Brad Merriman
Subject: Update for BLPAB Branding /Marketing Subcommittee
Importance: High
Hello Trish,
Please be advised that I will be unable to attend today's meeting.due to an immediate request to attend a coordination
meeting at the Supervisor of Elections Tabulation Center. I apologize for the short notice.
The Subcommittee report I was to give today involved the progress that we have had regarding the Ad Fed logo design.
The Subcommittee reviewed 22 logo designs submitted by three firms. What we determined was that all were very
good and did apply to Bioscience. To achieve the goals of ease of transition and an identity that flowed with the BDB
website the subcommittee narrowed the logo possibilities to two based on:
Usage on website
Usage for Partners
How it applies to the concepts or correlates with Bio Science Corridor
Usage on Printed material
We believe our logo recommendation that will be presented at the next BLPAB, will achieve our goal for the web and
usage on the top of all printed agenda and letters.
If I can provide additional information, please let me know.
Thank you,
Lisa De La Rionda
Director
Department of Public Affairs
Palm Beach County
The following are just a few of Scripps Florida's impressive accomplishments as presented in the
Scripps Florida Annual Report for the year ending June 30, 2008.
A few of the scientific and funding highlights include:
• In 2008, a record number of new graduate students selected Scripps Florida as their
school of choice to pursue their doctoral degrees. OF the nine new students, four came
from Florida universities and colleges (UM, UF, FSU, New College of Fla).
• Scripps Florida scientists found a clue to Alzheimer's Disease progression in that a
specialized form of RNAis directly linked to increased levels of amyloid plaque in the
brains of Alzheimer's patients.
• Between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008, scientists at Scripps Florida were awarded 17
research grants from sources other than the State of Florida. The value of those grants is
$22 million. Since inception, Scripps Florida's scientists have received a total of $48
million in research grants from sources other than the state of Florida.
• 9 patent applications have been filed on Scripps Florida technology between July 1, 2007
and June 30, 2008. A total of 79 patent applications on Scripps Florida technology have
been filed since inception.
• Through June 30, 2008, the Scripps Florida Funding Corporation had $183,230,834 of
the total grant to Scripps Florida, of which $176,181,500 is principal.
A few of the employment highlights include:
• Between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2007, 84 jobs were created within Scripps Florida. Of
the 84 new jobs, 43 people were residents of Florida at the time of hire. As of June 30,
2008, Scripps Florida employs 250 people.
• In May, Dr. Larry Wylie was appointed the new Director of Environmental Health and
Safety. Dr. Wylie comes from Wyeth, a world leader in the development of
pharmaceuticals and other health care products.
• Scripps Florida assistant professor Timothy Tellinghuisen received the prestigious
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award
for 2008. He is one of only 14 scientists in North America chosen this year. .
A few of the collaborative, outreach and spin -off highlights include:
• Scripps Florida established a collaborative relationship with Curna, a start -up company in
Palm Beach County which is exploring the potentials of micro RNA. The company was
founded by local entrepreneur Joseph W. Collard and Scripps Fla professor Claes
Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D. The company is based on technology that was invented by Dr.
Wahlestedt at Scripps Florida.
• As of June 30, 2008, Scripps Florida had 39 on -going and new scientific collaborations
between Scripps Florida scientists and colleagues from Florida colleges and universities.
• Six Florida institutions (UF, FAU, UCF, UM, FSU and Nova SouthEastern) continue to
maintain an executed Joint Cooperation Agreement with Scripps. JCAs streamline the
scientific collaboration process by including such provisions to make it easier to
collaborate on filing patents and to share revenues from commercialized innovations.
• 3 high school teachers and 11 high school students served as 2008 paid summer interns;
over 50% of student interns were minority students.
• As of June 30, 2008, 7 FAU Wilkes Honors College undergraduate students are
performing research in the Scripps Fla research facility.
• Scripps Florida participated in workforce recruitment activities (career fairs and
expositions) at 8 public and private colleges and universities from July 2007 through June
2008.