The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center said today it has provided a $570,000 grant to establish an international stem cell registry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The registry will be an online resource for academic researchers, companies, and members of the public looking for information on stem cell research. The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is a quasi-public agency that administers Gov. Deval Patrick’s 10-year, $1 billion initiative to support the life sciences industry.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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