"Billion Dollar Discovery...for the MA Economy"

In June 2008, Governor Deval Patrick and the MA State Legislature enacted a $1 billion initiative for the quasi-public MA Life Sciences Center to administer over ten-years.  Within this legislation is a $10 million set aside of capital funding for the creation of a MA Small Business Matching Grant Fund for high technology and life sciences companies who have received advanced funding to commercialize their technology from the federal Small Business Innovation Research Grant program.  SBANE’s High Technology committee authored this provision in the legislation and worked very closely with then Chairperson Dan Bosley (D), North Adams, toward a successful conclusion.

Susan Windham-Bannister

MA Life Sciences Center

Susan Windham-Bannister, the Center’s President and CEO, will address how this initiative is fast becoming the hub of connectivity for all sectors of the life sciences community…encouraging unprecedented public-private collaboration among industry, research, academia, and government cultivating innovation at institutions whose research, development and commercialization of therapies, products, and cures hold great promise for improving and saving lives.

Cost:
$45 Member Pre-Registered
$55 Member Pay-at-Door
$70 Non-Member Pre-Registered
$75 Non-Member Pay-at-Door

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Charles Schwab
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