$15 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Marine Biological Laboratory

Governor Deval Patrick, Senate President Therese Murray,
MLSC President & CEO Susan Windham-Bannister and an
MBL scientist examine a cuttlefish

MLSC President & CEO Susan Windham-Bannister holds
a spider crab at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Governor Deval Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray
tour the lab space that will be renovated, with MBL Director and
CEO Gary Borisy

Senate President Therese Murray participates in the grant
announcement with Governor Patrick, Nobel Prize recipient
Dr. Osamu Shimomura, and MBL Director and CEO Gary Borisy

On November 17, 2008 the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center joined with Governor Deval Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray to announce a $15 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole.The grant was leveraged by a $10 million commitment of state funding contained in the Life Sciences Act that was released by the Life Sciences Center Board on November 18th, 2008, and that will fund a combined $25 million renovation of lab space at MBL. MBL is a leading international, independent, nonprofit institution dedicated to discovery and to improving the human condition through creative research and education in the biological, biomedical and environmental sciences. Founded in 1888, MBL is the oldest private marine laboratory in the Western Hemisphere. Also participating in the event was Dr. Osamu Shimomura, MBL distinguished scientist and 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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