MLSC President & CEO Travis McCready joined New England Cable News for his monthly check-in on the life sciences industry.
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A club at a Boston school is blazing a path for future careers in Science.
Headmaster Dr. Lindsa McIntyre has transformed the Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester; focusing on the whole child, academically and socially.
The Science Club is an afterschool program helping to target those students. It’s a passion of science teacher Dr. Carl Reid.
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There was excitement and pride at Goodrich Academy for the Life Science Lab ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday morning.
Goodrich Academy science teacher Sara Goguen’s room certainly received a needed facelift, along with new STEM equipment, supplies and professional development through a grant awarded by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center during the 2016-17 school year.
“This is a beautiful space,” Goguen said. “Sometimes I sit around at my desk and look around a smile. It’s amazing.”
The awarded amount was $105, 345.
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The Berkshire Innovation Center has been in the works since 2013, when the city of Pittsfield received a grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, a quasi-state agency, to put together a business plan for a potential biotech research facility in Western Massachusetts. But the project was delayed by funding gaps, leading to some uncertainty over when construction of the 20,000 square foot center would begin.
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If Gov. Charlie Baker and several top aides plan to travel to the Berkshires barely a day after a major winter storm, it must for be something big.
How about an announcement involving the Berkshire Innovation Center?
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Gov. Charlie Baker last June offered a five-year, $500 million bill to basically extend the life sciences law and that bill could draw attention before BIO comes to town. While the bill has not advanced in the House or Senate, House Speaker Robert DeLeo in January said he favors a “renewal of our commitment” to the industry, which he said has “shown to be a good investment in the past, good for the Massachusetts economy.”
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Higher education and business leaders must work together if they’re going to solve the problem of rising costs for college and student debt, a panel of experts said Tuesday morning.
Travis McCready, the president and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, said colleges can — and must — do more to connect students with job opportunities in the local biotech industry, where annual salaries often run in the six figures.
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Travis McCready, President & CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, discusses how Indigo AG is using biotech to produce greater yields in agriculture.
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LakePharma, Inc. is the latest company to join the region’s biotech industry, all while state and business officials push for a robust workforce to keep the momentum going – and attract new businesses.
On Monday, the San Francisco company announced it will open a 69,000-square foot biomanufacturing building on South Street in Hopkinton. The company plans to add approximately 100 jobs at the center by 2020.
“Hopkinton is in close proximity to Cambridge/Boston, where we have a large cluster of clients, and we believe that this facility will increase our ability to serve their product development and manufacturing needs,” said Hua Tu, LakePharma’s CEO, in a statement.
The news comes as dozens of state and businesses officials gathered Thursday afternoon at Sunovion’s global headquarters in Marlborough to hear the latest update prepared by the 495/MetroWest Partnership on the life sciences industry. Life sciences is the second largest industry in the state behind information technology, according to the report.
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MLSC President & CEO Travis McCready, joined necn to discuss women in the life sciences. McCready discussed the launch of the Massachusetts Next Generation Initiative, and how the Center is aiming to be an agent of change to improve gender diversity in the industry.
For more information on the MassNextGen Initiative, visit the program page here.
With more and more students studying in life sciences fields, chancellors in the University of Massachusetts system are telling state legislators they need the funding to compete for talented students and then keep them in Massachusetts after graduation.
That’s why the chancellors gathered to show “unified support” of a bill that will continue state investments in the life sciences in front of members of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies on Thursday.
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The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) Friday announced the launch of the Massachusetts Next Generation Initiative to attempt to narrow the industry’s gender diversity gap by offering financing and other support to women entrepreneurs. The program was unveiled at Takeda’s Kendall Square office. The company’s CEO, Christophe Weber, and Gov. Charlie Baker were both in attendance to announce the program and Takeda’s generous support of it.
Women are underrepresented in the life sciences industry. Now, a new program is trying to change that by supporting biotech startups led by women. on Friday, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center with Governor Charlie Baker launched Massachusetts Next Generation Initiative (MassNextGen) — a five-year initiative that will fund and support early stage biotech companies run by women, with signifcant support from anchor sponsor, Takeda.
A $4.6 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) will increase Dana-Farber’s capacity for manufacturing a wide variety of engineered cellular products for patients with cancer and other diseases, establish relationships with commercial partners to refine cell manufacturing processes, and provide manufactured products for patients enrolled in clinical trials.
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Selecting the 50 most powerful businesspeople in the Boston area is never an easy task. There are easily hundreds, probably thousands, of smart, savvy, powerful people doing business in Greater Boston. Some work quietly and efficiently behind the scenes, others are figurehead leaders driving their companies through incredible growth and success.
This year’s Boston Business Journal Power 50 list — our seventh — is focused on men and women who are not only leading and breaking new ground, but also doing that work as an example to others, unafraid to make headlines and, at times, stand firm in the heat of the spotlight’s glare.
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