News & Press

To view or download the Winter 2008 MBC Newsletter click here or click on the newsletter icon at the top of massbio.org.

MBC President & CEO Robert K. Coughlin did a series of media interviews in response to the Department of Public Health's draft sales and marketing disclosure regulations.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council today submitted comments in response to the Department of Revenue's Technical Information Release issued earlier this month regarding the implementation of the Life Science Initiative's tax incentive piece.

See the comment letter here.

Bob Coughlin discusses the biotechnology industry's growth in light of today's tough economic reality.

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center embraced a study that says Massachusetts must improve, expand and tailor its educational programs and resources designed to prepare students and workers for jobs in life sciences sector, at a board meeting today. The study lays out recommendations to ensure the life sciences industry will have the talent it needs to grow in the Commonwealth over the next decade.

View the Life Sciences Talent Initiative Report

In the Message of Hope radio series, you hear real stories of three Massachusetts researchers and a clinical trials manager who work each day to produce cures for unmet medial needs. These talented individuals come from a cross-section of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Membership (MBC): an academic research institution, a small biotechnology company with 15 employees, a medium sized, public biotechnology company pushing for their first product, and a large biopharmaceutical company working on its next promising therapy.