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State University, Christiana Care Health System, Delaware Technical Community College, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and Wesley College. Delaware has so far received $229 million in biomedical re- search funding through the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program, which seeks to build research capacities in states with historically low levels of National Institutes of Health Funding.
“We have a much more substantial infrastructure now,” Provine says. “We’re well positioned to attract, maintain and grow companies.”
THE NEXUS OF BIOSCIENCE RESEARCH
Delaware’s preeminent researchers
in bioscience are also connected by the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), which works with universities, colleges, health systems and companies ranging
from startups to multinationals. “We pro- vide state-of-the-art resources to support research in the life sciences,” says John Koh, DBI’s director. “This includes highly specialized equipment such as genome sequencers and high-end microscopes — things that require a dedicated staff to run.”
DBI’s next move is a physical one: to space on the University of Delaware’s STAR Campus, which it will share with
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from Cornell University and now heads NIIMBL (the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals), a consortium between academia and industry that is headquartered in Delaware.
Another component of DBI’s mission
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