Life Sciences Assembly
by Jack Cashill
Dr. Jim Spigarelli, Midwest Research Institute
Dr. Andrea Hall, Midwest Research Institute
Dr. Elias Michaelis, Higuchi BioSciences Center, KU
Dr. David Morrison, Saint Luke's Hospital
Dr. Don Hagen, University of Kansas Medical Center
Dr. Bill Caskey, Children's Mercy Hospital
Dr. Bill Truog, Children's Mercy Hospital
Peter Higuchi, Cydex, Inc.
Dr. Charles Wheeler, former mayor of Kansas City
John Bluford, Truman Medical Center
Dr. Richard Hellman, Metropolitan Medical Society of Greater K.C.
Karen Pletz, University of Health Sciences
Dr. Martha Gilliland, Chancellor, UMKC
Dr. Bill Duncan, Life Sciences Institute
John McConnell, Labconco
Dr. Joe Kornegay, MU School of Veterinary Medicine
Dr, John Hunkeler, Hunkeler Eye Centers
John Houghton, MO Department of Economic Development
Dr. Kelley Thomas, UMKC School of Biological Sciences
Dr. Dick Dreher, Children's Mercy Hospital, retired
Jack Cashill, Ingram's Magazine
Joe Sweeney, Ingram's Magazine
"A WHOLE LOT OF SCIENCE GOING ON"
Just a few years ago, no one anywhere would have thought of Kansas City as a "life sciences center" or even as having the potential to be one. For that matter, the typical Kansas City civic leader had no particular idea of what the term "life sciences" even meant or implied.
All that has changed. Indeed, so dramatic has been the change that life sciences has emerged locally as something of a model on how to define and position a given industry. At an Ingram's sponsored luncheon on April 23rd, at the impressively user-friendly Children's Mercy Hospital, a diverse group of local life science industry leaders gathered to assess progress to date. These included:
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