Supplement: A Rich Life Science Cluster

A Rich Life Science Cluster By Mike May This region is a powerhouse of human capital in a network of research institutions, academia, pharmaceuticals, biotechs, and industry-support services. RELATED ARTICLES A Region Defined Did You Know? Greater Philadelphia's Big Pharmas A Robust Support Infrastructure Barbara Schilberg: Champion for the region Bridging the Gap Brenda Gavin: Making a venture capitalist Investment Momentum Building Update Those

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A Region Defined

Did You Know?

Greater Philadelphia's Big Pharmas

A Robust Support Infrastructure

Barbara Schilberg: Champion for the region

Bridging the Gap

Brenda Gavin: Making a venture capitalist

Investment Momentum Building

Update Those Resumes

Creating Roots

Ramping Up Tech Transfer

Experts from the Greater Philadelphia region started getting together in 2000 to discuss its life science community. Among the challenges noted in those gatherings, one involved image - or rather, the area's lack of an image as a life science cluster. An image subcommittee planned to change that. "It was a very deliberate strategy," says Karen Hanson, executive director of Biolaunch611+ KIZ and the convener of that image subcommittee. Hanson and her colleagues wanted to bring BIO - the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual meeting - back to Philadelphia.

On BIO's first run in Philadelphia in 1996, it drew fewer than 4,000 attendees. By 2000, though, the meeting had ...

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