UMass, MassBio partner up to get biotech companies needed lab equipment
The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, known as MassBio, and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst are partnering on an incubator so that local companies have more and cheaper access to research equipment. “They can use them as they need them, rent them,” said Robert K. Coughlin, president and CEO of MassBIO. “This is really putting life sciences in Western Massachusetts on the map.”