b'Stan Lapidus, shown at a Colorado BioScience Institute leadership training, shares his insights and expertise with leaders in our community.in a thin, uniform layer. This was new science,Legendary Founder, and not a slam dunk, as Lapidus puts it.The ThinPrep program proceeded in parallelStan Lapidus, on with the digital image analysis program CytycPlanning for Pivotswas founded on. The new program advanced faster, and ThinPrep improved the speed and accuracy of human cytotechnologists assess- 1ments to the point that Lapidus dropped the digital image-analysis program, cutting headcount from 40 to 20 in the process. Pivot earlyThese people were my friends. Theyve been to my home. Ive been to their homes,2Lapidus says. Yeah, thats hard. Plan for separations up front But then, how many cervical cancers did that pivot help spot early? And without3ThinPreps success, would Lapidus have launchedExactSciences,andwouldGet your board on boardCologuard have caught countless nascent malignancies decades later? In bioscience entrepreneurship,thefruitsoftough4decision-making have the potential to save countless lives. Pivot in parallel2025-2026 BIOSCIENCE COLORADO 17'