Awards & News

February 2007 — Southwest Michigan First honors two more Catalysts for Success in the Kalamazoo Region http://www.southwestmichiganfirst.com/CatalystAwardPicturesMarch2007.cfm

January 2007 — Southwest Michigan First Biotech startup moves downtown
http://www.southwestmichiganfirst.com/pdf/01302007_Biotech%20startup%20moves%20downtown.pdf

January 2007 — Great Lakes IT Report
Kalamazoo life sciences startup outgrows incubator, moves downtown: Fueled by growing revenues and an expanding workforce, a start-up life sciences company that was incubated in Kalamazoo Valley Community College's Michigan Technical Education Center is establishing new headquarters in downtown Kalamazoo.

Established in October of 2003 by former Pfizer Inc. researchers Patricia Ruppel and James Dancy, Innovative Analytics was the first start-up enterprise to locate in the second-floor incubator of the college's M-TEC in February 2004. Encouraged by Southwest Michigan First to apply for Michigan Life Science Corridor funding, Innovative Analytics received a grant to provide data-management and statistical-analysis services for clinical, pharmacogenomic and biomarker research trials. With gross revenues exceeding $1 million during 2006, Innovative Analytics has pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical-device clients in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Iceland, France, Great Britain and Germany.

Ruppel and Dancy, who were colleagues in a Pfizer experimental medicine unit in downtown Kalamazoo, brought with them 27 and 17 years, respectively, of Kalamazoo-based experience with The Upjohn Co. and Pharmacia. They both left Pfizer in the fall of 2003.

October 2003 — dKb Technologies (precursor to Innovative Analytics) awarded Michigan Life Science Corridor funding
www.michigan.org/medc/ttc/LifeSciences