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MBI Welcomes New Startups and Investment Firm in First Quarter of 2025
MBI, the longest-running non-profit life sciences incubator in the Commonwealth dedicated to creating a biomanufacturing hub in Central Massachusetts, is proud to welcome seven new startups to the incubator this quarter.
MBI Innovator: Jean Qiu wins WBJ Business Leader of the Year
MBI's own Jean Qiu, PhD has won the Worcester Business Journal's 2025 Business Leader of the Year Award! Congratulations Jean! Jean Qiu and her fantastic team have been a part of the MBI community since 2024 and we cannot wait to see what else she accomplishes while at MBI.
Here’s how MA plans to keep its edge in biotech
A growing effort is underway to establish Central Massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. It has a more competitive cost of living than Greater Boston, more land available for the development of manufacturing plants, and a key advantage over southern states for biotech companies.
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives and Thermo Fisher Scientific Announce Sponsorship Agreement for Worcester-Based Incubator
The agreement establishes the Thermo Fisher Scientific Instrument Suite at MBI’s Briden Street location, which will be furnished with advanced research equipment, including a qPCR system, fluorescence imaging system and a plate reader, along with supply centers and technical support. Having access to such resources will enable MBI’s incubator tenants to accelerate R&D, produce high-quality data and results and advance progress toward their scientific goals.
ISPE Event at MBI: Strategy and Innovation used for Building a Regional Biomanufacturing Cluster
The International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) will be hosting a networking and educational event at MBI on November 16, 2023
Industry advocates seek to turn Central Mass. into a leader in bioindustrial engineering
There are different pathways to commercialization in bioindustrial manufacturing than biopharmaceuticals, said Ben Linville-Engler of MassTech, but the industry can leverage the talent and infrastructure between the two.
Building with Biology: The Economic Acceleration of Central Massachusetts with a Bioindustrial Manufacturing Technology Hub
The Blackstone River Valley in Central Massachusetts was the birthplace of the industrial revolution. Nearly 250 years later, Worcester can be a leader in the new technology driven revolution of the next century, bioindustrial manufacturing. To spur this effort, a consortium of industry leaders and academic institutions, led by MBI, has applied for a grant from the U.S. EDA to accelerate this initiative and declare Worcester as a Regional Technology and Innovation Hub.
Lunch & Learn – “Go Fund Yourself”
Join MBI and our friends in venture capital, angel investment, and SBIR grants for a conversation about funding your startup. Open to all, registration required.
Worcester looks to become a drug manufacturing hub
“We’ve been trying to work on promoting a regional biomanufacturing cluster since like 2013,” said Jon Weaver, president and CEO of the Worcester-based biotech incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives. “It’s really taken off in the last couple of years.”
MBI launches $6M capital campaign for new Pilot Biomanufacturing Center
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, a Worcester-based bioscience and technology incubator, has launched a $6-million capital campaign to build out its Pilot Biomanufacturing Center.
New Worcester angel investment group seeks to fund startups
“Central Massachusetts has seen an explosion of venture and angel-funded startups in the past five years,” Jon Weaver, president and CEO of the Worcester incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, said in the press release. “We’re thrilled to see the Wire Group recognizing that market and adding an additional option to capitalize these exciting startups in the region.”
Healey-Driscoll Administration and Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Announce Expanded Public-Private Initiative to Support Diverse Entrepreneurs
“Lifesaving technologies start with a Founder and an idea. MLSC's MassNextGen program empowers a new, diverse group of Founders and prepares them for the challenging road between products and patients. We're proud to support this program and these talented entrepreneurs.”
Building out a bioscience startup ecosystem
Jon Weaver, the president and CEO of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, a life sciences incubator in Worcester, sees Central Massachusetts as ripe for investment in life sciences because the talent is here and the space is available for a more reasonable price compared to Boston and Cambridge. He sees what happened in Kendall Square as a blueprint for what can happen in other communities.
Worcester, Lowell Eyed As Next Big Life Sciences Clusters As Costs Rise In Urban Core
As Boston’s life sciences market continue to grow to meet the demand of the companies moving to the region, unexpected clusters are beginning to form in areas where the cost of development and living is significantly lower.
QCC, Worcester State receive MBI grants to diversify, educate life science workforce
The focus of MBI's Challenge Grants is to help translate, promote collaboration, and create opportunities for new and diverse populations to join the growing industry.
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) Announces 2022 Challenge Grant Recipients
MBI Increasing Diversity in STEM Challenge Grants & Workforce Challenge Grants fund programs that increase the diversity of the life sciences workforce
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI), the longest-running life sciences incubator in the Commonwealth, last week announces the recipients of its 2022 Increasing Diversity in STEM & Workforce Challenge Grants. MBI’s Increasing Diversity in STEM Challenge Grants and Workforce Challenge Grants help fund programs that increase the diversity of the life sciences workforce while also solving the industry’s future workforce needs.
Local colleges receive grants to promote diversity in life science research
[MBI] awarded a series of grants Thursday morning to programs that help create a diverse workforce while solving industry needs. The goal of the grants is to promote collaboration and create opportunities for new and diverse populations to join the field.
Luis G. Pedraja: Community partnerships strengthen our education system, communities
[The] innovative entry-level Biomanufacturing On-Ramp Workshop designed in partnership with Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, AbbVie, and most recently funded by a grant from the Mass. Office of Business Development, is helping people to upskill or reskill so they can enter the biomanufacturing industry pipeline, an industry increasing exponentially in our region.
Boston, Worcester rank in top 25 US metro areas for life science research talent, study says
“Massachusetts is lucky to be home to multiple world class biotech cities. Worcester and Cambridge complement each other to make Massachusetts the destination for life sciences,”
Worcester Named Top 15 Life Sciences Talent Cluster
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) announced today that a recent report from CBRE titled Life Sciences Research Talent 2022 ranked Worcester the 15th best market in the US for life sciences research talent. The report attributes the success of the top 25 major metro areas to their proximity to highly educated talent and significant concentration of life sciences research. The report specifically highlights Worcester’s proximity to Boston/Cambridge, which ranked first.
Jon Weaver: Investing in biotech and hope in Massachusetts
The past few years has put a spotlight on the importance of life saving medicines that was already obvious for those saved by a lifesaving cancer therapeutic or life altering medicine for chronic pain. The product of biotech innovation saves lives.
With expansion of MBI’s biomed center, state and city say Worcester rises on biotech scene
"I hold (Worcester) up as the example because you are the model," Turner said. "You're absolutely the model that I want to see spread out to places like Lawrence and Lowell and Pittsfield and Lee."
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Break Ground Biomanufacturing Center Expansion in Worcester
The expansion will add 10 new Biomanufacturing Labs to support early-stage clinical companies in process development and early-stage manufacturing.
MBI incubator to expand again, following $7M Briden St. purchase
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives will break ground Wednesday morning on an expanded biomanufacturing center in Worcester after purchasing the property for more than $7.1 million.
Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito joined Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI)
Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito joined Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) to break ground on MBI’s Biomanufacturing Center Expansion in Worcester
Expansion will support growing life sciences companies in Central Massachusetts from Concept to Clinical Trials
Worcester, MA (May 25, 2022) - Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI), and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) today kicked-off the expansion of MBI’s Biomanufacturing Center by breaking through a wall in the existing space.
Life science in Worcester is flourishing. Where does the industry go from here?
"We like to say we have ‘Woomentum’ and I think the city is at a pretty exciting time," he said. "It’s just not going to be possible to contain the industry sustainably within I-95. It’s already at (Interstate) 495, it’s now in Worcester, and frankly as it continues to grow there’s going to be more need for Worcester to provide more space. The city’s on fire."
QCC using state grant to help push students into biomanufacturing
The grant comes from Worcester incubator Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, along with the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, according to a Tuesday press release.
Jon Weaver: Investing in biotech and hope in Massachusetts
Thousands of Massachusetts residents rely on the ongoing success of the biopharmaceutical industry. Innovation helps drive our local job market and state economy, and gives patients access to crucial medical care.