Don Colbert
Federal Research Funding Specialist

Affiliated with both the Kansas Bioscience Authority’s Heartland BioVentures initiative and the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, Don Colbert focuses on enhancing all areas of federal funding to support technology-based economic development and innovation commercialization in Kansas.

Dr. Colbert brings to the position more than 30 years of professional experience in positions of increasing responsibility in academic, government, and industrial sectors involving research, business, education/training, and management/administrative responsibilities. He has worked on all aspects of science and technology development, transfer, regulation and commercialization. In the process, he has played a key role in the establishment of more than 25 new for-profit and non-profit organizations and has secured more than $35 million in contracts/grants/investments from a variety of sources to support these efforts.

Dr. Colbert received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Irvine and his doctorate from Brown University. He completed postdoctoral training at the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute and Baylor College of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology.