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Saturday, February 20, 2010
The state’s top biotechnology lobbying group held a fund-raiser yesterday for Rep. Michael Rodrigues, a Westport Democrat who tried to block a state law that requires drug firms and medical device makers to disclose payments to doctors for endorsing their products.
“He stood strongly in support of our position against disclosing vital information regarding health-care professionals and their interaction with our member companies,” Massachusetts Biotechnology Council President Robert Coughlin wrote in the fund-raiser’s e-mailed invitation.
“To refer to Michael as a champion of the life sciences industry, is certainly an understatement,” wrote Coughlin, a former state representative from Dedham.Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Monday, February 08, 2010
Brainloop, the leading supplier of software solutions for high-security management of confidential documents, today announced it has joined the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio). Brainloop appealed to MassBio as a member based on the strengths of Brainloop’s highly secure online work space for outlicensing and collaboration that provides secure document management and 24/7 global access. Brainloop is the first partner accepted into MassBio that offers an application for collaboration and licensing transactions.
“As a company with specific expertise in the life sciences sector, Brainloop is a valuable member of our council,” said Robert Coughlin, MassBio President & CEO. “Their Secure Dataroom platform is poised to play a leading role in the biotechnology industry as it becomes more global in its collaborations and partnerships.“Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Town Council is considering eliminating a special permit that biotechnology companies must obtain before setting up business operations, a requirement that officials say has been hampering Franklin’s ability to attract commercial growth.
Like a growing number of area communities, Franklin is talking about streamlining its regulatory process to attract biotechnology companies, hoping to benefit from the tax revenue and jobs that would accompany their move into town.Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Friday, December 18, 2009
Cleantech leaders in Central Massachusetts are looking toward their biotech brethren in Worcester as a model for bringing more industry development to the region.
Armed with a grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, the Institute for Energy and Sustainability is working to bring together cleantech players from the public, business and academic sectors to pitch the Worcester area as a good place to build and grow a green business.
“With the stimulus programs, the clean energy sector is one of the few sectors performing according to plan,” said Vincent DeVito, a cleantech attorney with Bowditch & Dewey LLP and interim director of the institute.Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Saturday, November 21, 2009
A Massachusetts biotech firm whose equipment is used in food processing and biomedical research says it obtained a secured $1 million revolving line of credit from Webster Bank in Waterbury.
Microfluidics International Corp., in Newton, Mass., said the working capital will support development of new products, quality improvements to its existing line, and general corporate operations.
According to Dun & Bradstreet, Microfluidics, whose shares trade over the counter, had 2008 sales of $14.9 million and 53 employees.Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Friday, November 20, 2009
Biotech firms would bring good, clean, high-paying jobs to the Neponset Valley, but the region’s towns need to make it easier for businesses to come here, according to state biotech leaders.
Walpole officials, however, are wary of the message as they get ready to tackle biotech issues in their use table rewrite – a section of the town’s zoning bylaws that determines what businesses are and are not allowed in Walpole.
In a presentation local Selectmen called a “sales pitch,” Massachusetts Biotechnology Council President Robert Coughlin spoke to a gathering of municipal officials and industry representatives including Walpole higher-ups last Wednesday at the Four Points Sheraton in Norwood.Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Seeking to get a leg up on an evolving job industry, Assabet Valley Tech has added a biotechnology program this year.
“We are in a biotech mecca,” with companies in several local communities such as Marlborough, Framingham and Westborough, said Superintendent-Director Mary Jo Nawrocki.
This week the school held a grand opening for the program. State legislators and biotech employees attended as the school introduced the program to its member communities and discussed the field’s job market.Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Sunday, October 25, 2009
The town of Tewksbury was recently recognized as a Gold BioReady Community by the Massachusetts BioTechnology Council. The town was one of nine communities in the Commonwealth to receive this designation.
“This initiative is about helping maintain the Commonwealth’s competitiveness as the global leader in biotechnology by increasing the inventory of real and potential biotechnology properties in its cities and towns,” said Robert Coughlin, president of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. “Speed to the laboratory bench and the manufacturing line is critical to this industry.”Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Life-sciences companies face a funding squeeze as pharmaceutical giants consolidate and financial markets cool toward biotechnology start-ups, industry leaders said yesterday.
“The biotechnology industry is a huge consumer of capital,’’ Peter Wirth, executive vice president at Genzyme Corp., the giant Cambridge biotechnology company, told a leadership panel at Suffolk Law School. “It takes a billion dollars to develop a drug. The critical dilemma now is how are we going to continue to pay for innovation.’’Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, National, News
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Acucela, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing new
treatments for blinding eye diseases, announced today that Ryo Kubota, M.D.,
Ph.D., Acucela`s chairman, president and chief executive officer, is scheduled
to present at the 2009 Boston Biotech R&D Conference at 11:40 a.m. EDT on
October 27, 2009 at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The
conference will bring together scientific leaders from top academic institutions
that have been instrumental in establishing the strong Boston research
community, executives from several of the area`s most promising and innovative
biopharmaceutical companies, and principals from the venture capital community
and equity markets.
“We are very pleased to be presenting at this year`s Boston Biotech R&D
conference,” stated Dr. Kubota. “The conference has quickly established itself
as an interactive forum to share information with leading biotech and
pharmaceutical companies and discuss the advances being made in cutting-edge
research and development programs. We are looking forward to discussing our
Visual Cycle Modulator (VCM) technology, our clinical programs in blinding eye
diseases and our efforts to ultimately prevent vision loss and blindness with
our peers and colleagues in the Boston community.“Read Full Article
posted in: Massachusetts, News
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