Ralph Kauten on how to raise angel financing

Ralph Kauten. Source: Teresa Esser. Ralph is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the state, in the field of bioscience, said Frank Langley, president and CEO of Point One Personal Genetic Systems. But youll never get Ralph Kauten to admit that his success in high-tech entrepreneurship...

Quintessence Secures Financing

...ed technologies that will enable more effective drugs to be created and therapies against inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and lupus. Ralph kauten has been one of the leaders of the growth of the biotechnology industry in Wisconsin, recently serving as the President of the Wisconsin Biotechnology...

Quintessence Biosciences forms cancer therapeutic advisory board

...cs. Announced last week by President and Chief Executive Officer Ralph kauten , the board will consist of distinguished scientific leaders who will help ... Cancer affects one of every three people at some point during their life, kauten said. Quintessence Biosciences must have access to the best medical and sc...

Tech Digest: whats moving in the Midwest

...n, director of the Wisconsin state SBDC. The Small Business Administration handed out 21 of the grants to different states. Only six went to SBDCs, kauten said. The UW-Extension SBDC office is one of 13 in Wisconsin. TeraMedica scans new market opportunity: smaller hospitals An Alabama health syste...

Cancer treatment advances as trials show no harm to mice

...igh tolerance by animals, company President Ralph kauten said. Prior to joining Quintessence in 2002, kauten held management positions in several start-up biot...managed the company until it was acquired in 2001. kauten was a key player in the founding and early managem...

Investors hear about new agricultural technology

...s in general. I really had a two-piece message, kauten said. He spent the first part of his presentation ...e process from the first part of his presentation, kauten explained his companys success in following due di... and marrying that resource with new technologies, kauten said. The agricultural community is a thriving com...

Start-ups, angels can connect on new state Web site

...nd inappropriate. Entrepreneurs need to work hard and make a lot of phone calls and do a good job on their business plans. It's meritocracy." Ralph kauten said, however, that "government should be interested in economic development, and where it can be helpful in facilitating it." And other angel investo...

UW's Waisman Center seeing strong demand for biomanufacturing facility time

... on use of the protein purification suites. But kauten is somewhat concerned about the popularity of the ...hat they are outgrowing their current facilities," kauten observed. "The concern is that increased activitie...d to other companies focused on drug development," kauten said. "Given the increasing number of formed throu...

Embracing failure is a necessary step for successful entrepreneurs

...rting four biotech companies over time, and if they do work, they dont work the way you think theyre going to work. After much time and investment, kauten said, Quintessence eventually set aside the first technology and moved to developing what the company now believes is its most promising idea. The com...

Madison biotech introduces drug discovery advance

... meeting of the Protein Science Society of Japan in Kyoto, Japan. CEO Ralph kauten said the latest product in the trademarked PreserveX line will give researc...very. As the drug discovery industry tackles increasingly complex diseases, kauten believes research with membrane proteins will continue to move to the cente...