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Greater Philadelphia Region Seeks ARPA-H Home Letter to HHS Secretary Points Out Region’s Significant Assets

PHILADELPHIA (June 29, 2022) – The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia today announced the region’s intention to seek to be the new home for a recently announced $1 billion federal agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which is expected to be located outside of Washington D.C. In a letter sent to the U.S. Health & Human Services Department Secretary Xavier Becerra and signed by business, civic, and elected officials, signers tout the region’s expertise in cell & gene therapy and gene editing, its rank as one of the top eight life sciences […]

June 29th, 2022|Cell and Gene Therapy, Largest Employers, Life Sciences, Media Resources, Our News, Press Releases|0 Comments
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Penn Announces Strategic Partnership with Longfellow Real Estate to Develop State-of-the-Art Life Sciences Facility in Philadelphia

Pennovation Works is a vibrant and growing community in the Greater Philadelphia region with innovative companies doing impactful research and product development.

The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia is excited to celebrate with the University of Pennsylvania its announcement of a strategic partnership with Longfellow Real Estate to develop a 455,000-sq.-ft., state-of-the-art life sciences facility inside the Pennovation Works ecosystem.

Read more about this exciting expansion in the press release and full article, which can be found here: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/365-million-development-will-expand-life-sciences-hub-pennovation-works.

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June 16th, 2022|Cell and Gene Therapy, Largest Employers, Life Sciences, Our News, Real Estate|0 Comments
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Penn Medicine Awarded $6 Million to Advance Understanding of Human Genome Function in Health and Disease

Penn Medicine is one of 30 sites chosen by the National Institute of Health to serve as an Impact of Genomic Variation on Function investigator.

Article from Penn Medicine

September 16th, 2021|Cell and Gene Therapy, Investments, Largest Employers, Life Sciences, Regional News Roundup|Comments Off on Penn Medicine Awarded $6 Million to Advance Understanding of Human Genome Function in Health and Disease
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Drexel President John Fry steering university into new markets as ‘demographic cliff’ looms

Drexel President is looking to the West and the South in search of future students.

Article from Philadelphia Business Journal

June 8th, 2021|Largest Employers, Life Sciences, Regional News Roundup|Comments Off on Drexel President John Fry steering university into new markets as ‘demographic cliff’ looms
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