12 Central MA Life Sciences Report
B Y K E V I N K O C Z WA R A
M
assachusetts has grown
into the global capital
for biotechnology and
life sciences research.
The state's renowned
hospitals like Boston Children's
Hospital, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Tufts
Medical Center, and others have,
in conjunction with the universities
attached to them like Harvard University
and Tufts University, made the area a
place where innovation flourishes. While
the tech industry has Silicon Valley, the
biotech industry has Cambridge. But
space and cost has begun to creep into
the area, forcing companies, especially
startups, to look outside of the Route
128 belt and increasing more towards
Central Massachusett and its own life
Talent, research, and funding has been
trickling westward out of the Cambridge life
sciences hub, and industry leaders see Central
Mass. primed for a deluge of growth in the
coming decades
Building out
a startup
ec ystem
P H O T O / M A T T W R I G H T
Jisun Lee, a postdoctoral
fellow at UMass Chan
Medical School, works in the
Worcester school's lab.
