
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) on March 18, 2013, announced a $4.1 million capital grant to the Forsyth Institute for a newly-created Forsyth Center for Salivary Diagnostics (FCSD). The grant will support the construction and equipping of the FCSD, a facility that will seek to revolutionize the way disease testing is performed. In addition, the MLSC announced in December, 2012, more than $400,000 in equipment and supply grants to a vocational technical school and workforce development programs in Cambridge.