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Harvard, MIT, GE and Fujifilm partner on $50 million biomed center

by Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | December 01, 2019
Business Affairs

– Provide a platform for workforce development and training.

The center will also use a modular design to make it simpler to adapt to rapid changes in technology.

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The report noted that there are several unique features to this collaboration that set it apart from existing efforts, including plans to produce cell and viral vector products in the same place; the bringing together of hospitals, industry and academia; and its “aspiration” to service both researchers and startups.

"It is designed to address a gap that we've heard is the most important gap in our region over and over again — that is, how to support early stage research in biological therapies," Harvard provost Alan Garber told WGBH.

"When they develop an exciting new insight, it's very hard for them to then take it to the point where they can expand it enough and manufacture enough, particularly of a biological agent or a cell to be actually tested in humans," he told the station. "And it's not solely a matter of quantity. It's also a matter of meeting FDA standards for being eligible to be tested in humans."

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