Question of the Week | Tuesday we asked: With Mustang Bio opening a biomanufacturing facility in the UMass Medicine Science Park and Chinese firm WuXi Biologics announcing plans for a $60-million facility in the Worcester Biomanufacturing Park, biotech experts like Kevin O'Sullivan from Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives are hailing Worcester as a biotech destination. | Has Worcester become a biomanufacturing destination like the Greater Boston area? | | Worcester, with its past history of traditional manufacturing, is a natural fit to become the biomanufacturing hub of MA. With LabCentral, UMass VDC, Nest Bio, BioSquare, Alexandria hosting several companies, The Broad Institute, Draper Labs, and the locations of Vertex, Biogen, Ironwood, Pfizer, Sanofi, Shire, Merck and others being in Boston or Cambridge, we have a long way to go. The players in the city know each other and people intermingle: more happening in the community in general. | See All Comments >> | |
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