Sharklet Technologies, Inc., has won the Dorsey & Whitney Venture Showcase Award at the 2010 BioWest Conference & Expo in Denver. The announcement is made by Holli Baumunk, President & CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA), who says the $7,500 Venture Showcase award was provided by the Dorsey & Whitney law firm and announced at the 2010 CBSA Awards Dinner.

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Sharklet Technologies Wins Dorsey & Whitney Venture Showcase Award,
Presented At 2010 BioWest Conference & Expo
Sharklet Technologies, Inc., has won the Dorsey & Whitney Venture Showcase Award at the 2010 BioWest
Conference & Expo in Denver. The announcement is made by Holli Baumunk, President & CEO of the
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA), who says the $7,500 Venture Showcase award was provided by the
Dorsey & Whitney law firm and announced at the 2010 CBSA Awards Dinner.
Denver, CO – September 29, 2010 – Sharklet Technologies, Inc., (Aurora, CO) has won the Dorsey & Whitney
Venture Showcase Award at the 2010 BioWest Conference & Expo. The announcement is made by Holli
Baumunk, President & CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA), who says the $7,500 Venture
Showcase Award was provided by the Dorsey & Whitney law firm and announced at the 2010 CBSA Awards
Dinner. The competition session at BioWest was sponsored by The Metro Denver Economic Development
Corporation (Metro Denver EDC).
Sharklet Technologies is a life sciences company that has engineered a revolutionary surface product
called Sharklet. The first non‐toxic, long‐lasting and no‐kill surface used to control the growth of bacteria,
Sharklet is a patented surface technology comprised of millions of raised, microscopic features arranged in
distinct diamond shapes to form a continuous pattern. Laboratory tests show that the Sharklet micro‐pattern
disrupts several critical microbial colonizing processes that are necessary for bacteria to develop into a
disease‐causing biofilm. In tests simulating an ambient hospital environment, the Sharklet patterned surface
has shown to significantly reduce survival and touch transfer of bacteria. Until the advent of Sharklet, kill
strategies including antibiotics, disinfectants and biocides have been the primary weapons to control bacterial
growth. These kill strategies and their overuse has led to increased bacterial resistance, causing harm to
people and the environment. Visit, http://www.sharklet.com.
Sharklet competed against three other companies for this honor. Additional finalists included AmideBio
(Boulder, CO), BioVantage: (Golden, CO), and PeptiVir, Inc. (Aurora, CO).
According to Baumunk, finalists had 10 minutes to present their technologies and business plans to a panel of
bioscience venture capitalists, followed by a question and answer period. The venture capitalist panelists
included: James Topper, M.D., Ph.D., General Partner,Frazier Healthcare Ventures; Brian Birk, Managing
Partner, Sun Mountain Capital; Liz Marchi, General Manager, Frontier Angels; and Micheal Weiner, Partner,
Dorsey & Whitney.
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Additional awards presented at the 2010 CBSA Annual Awards Dinner included:
 Life Time Achievement Award ‐‐ Robert Collins. Robert Collins has been called one of the two
“Father’s of Colorado’s Medical Device Industry.” In 1964, Mr. Collins and his business partner Ran
Bellows moved their small southern California business to Lakewood, Colorado. Their company, COBE
Laboratories, manufactured and distributed medical specialty products around the world, and soon
became an international player in the medical device sector.
 Life Time Achievement Award – Robert Anderson. Robert Anderson is also known as one of the two
“Father’s of Colorado’s Medical Device Industry.” In 1969, Mr. Anderson co‐founded Valleylab, Inc.,
and served as their CEO and Chairman until January 1986. He relinquished his role as CEO in 1986 and
continued as Chairman until retiring in May of 1996.
 2010 Company of the Year Award ‐‐ Amgen. Amgen Colorado was born out of a collaboration with
researchers at the University of Colorado with Dr. Marvin Caruthers serving as one of the company’s
founding researchers. Amgen first began research operations in Boulder in 1981, and in 1995, Amgen
acquired the Boulder facility which expanded when it bought a local biotech company, Synergen Inc.
Visit http://www.amgen.com.
 2010 Rising Star Award ‐‐ Sharklet Technologies. Sharklet Technologies is an Aurora‐based life science
company that has engineered a revolutionary surface product called Sharklet. Unlike anything on the
market today, Sharklet is the first non‐toxic, long lasting and no‐kill surface used to control the growth
of bacteria. Visit http://www.sharklet.com.
 Volunteer of the Year Award – Larry Blankenship. Larry Blankenship is the CEO of ValveXchange, an
Aurora based medical device firm which is working to improve heart valve replacement procedure by
developing a two‐piece bioprosthetic tissue valve system. Larry also sits on the Board of the Colorado
BioScience Association. Visit http://www.valvexchange.com.
 Educator of the Year Award – Deanna Scott. Deanna Scott is a prime example of an innovative and
outstanding educator in our community. Ms. Scott serves as the Associate Director for the BioMARC
Outreach Training Program for Product Translation at Colorado State University. Visit
http://www.biomarc.colostate.edu.
 2010 Partner of the Year Award – University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office and Colorado
State University Technology Transfer Office. Over the last seven years, Colorado’s bioscience industry
has grown faster than the national average and the research conducted in the state has garnered both
national and international attention. This success is highly due to the tremendous technology transfer
offices within the state’s research institutions. Visit https://www.cu.edu/techtransfer and
http://vpr.colostate.edu/pages/DiscoveryPortal.asp.
 2010 CBSA Chairman’s Award – Dr. Temple Grandin. Dr. Grandin was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Her achievements are remarkable because she was an autistic child. At age two she had no speech and
all the signs of severe autism. Fortunately, her mother defied the advice of the doctors and kept her
out of an institution. Many hours of speech therapy, and intensive teaching enabled her to learn
speech. As a teenager, life was hard with constant teasing. Mentoring by her high school science
teacher and her aunt on her ranch in Arizona motivated her to study and pursue a career as a scientist
and livestock equipment designer. Dr. Grandin obtained her B.A. at Franklin Pierce College in 1970. In
1974, she was employed as Livestock Editor for the Arizona Farmer Ranchman and also worked for
Corral Industries on equipment design. In 1975, she earned her M.S. in Animal Science at Arizona State
University for her work on the behavior of cattle in different squeeze chutes. Dr. Grandin was awarded
her Ph.D. in Animal Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and is currently a Professor at
Colorado State University. Visit http://www.grandin.com or http://www.templegrandin.com.
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About Colorado BioScience Association
The CBSA supports the economic development of Colorado through the creation of a premier bioscience
cluster within the state. Representing more than 400 members, the CBSA facilitates growth of the bioscience
industry in Colorado through advocacy, representation and service. For more information about Colorado's
dynamic bioscience cluster, visit the CBSA at http://www.cobioscience.com.
CBSA also is found on these social media sites:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/COBioscience
LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=98468&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/ColoradoBioScienceAssociation
News Feed: http://coloradobio.blogspot.com
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/COBioscience
About Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Dorsey is a business law firm applying a business perspective to our clients' needs and committing to help our
clients maintain that competitive edge. Dorsey's corporate lawyers serve clients ranging from start‐ups to
multinational corporations in a variety of matters including financings, M&A and joint ventures, regulatory,
and general corporate matters. Dorsey represents numerous medical device, healthcare and other technology
companies. Dorsey's patent lawyers combine their expertise in patent law and business acumen with their
solid technical backgrounds to provide clients the advice they need on the most effective methods for
protecting their technology and assisting them in patent portfolio strategic issues, patent preparation,
prosecution, licensing and related activities in patent offices in the U.S. and around the world.
About Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation
The Metro Denver EDC, an affiliate of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s first and only
truly regional economic development entity in which many area economic development groups have joined
together to represent, and further, the interests of an entire region. Our partners include 70 cities, counties,
and economic development organizations in the seven‐county Metro Denver and two‐county Northern
Colorado region. Visit: http://www.metrodenver.org.
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Contacts:
Leah Kientz, Director, Public Policy & Programs, Colorado BioScience Association
http://www.cobioscience.com – 303‐592‐4088 or lkientz@cobioscience.com
Maggie Chamberlin Holben, APR, Absolutely Public Relations http://www.absolutelypr.com – 303‐984‐9801,
maggie@absolutelypr.com