Inviragen Inc.

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SNAPSHOT: This Fort Collins-based company is focused on developing life-saving vaccines to protect against emerging infectious diseases worldwide, including many that impact children and adults in developing countries.

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LEADERSHIP: Dan Stinchcomb is CEO of the company, founded in 2005

WORK FORCE: 20 full-time equivalent employees in 2009, projected to grow in 2010.

SAVING LIVES: More than 15 million people worldwide the each year of infectious diseases. Vaccines represent the most cost-effective solutions to improving global health. Vaccine development is currently under way for dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, and Japanese encephalitis.

COLLABORATIVE POWER: Nationally, the company collaborates with researchers at the CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, the University of...