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BY MICHAEL BRADLEY
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BIOSCIENCE
TDelaware Companies Are on the Frontlines of the Fight Against Diseases
he biosciences climate in Delaware is robust While that happens, companies are sprouting and and making a significant difference in finding expanding with the goal of making discoveries that have cures for the most aggressive diseases and the ability to help the human body fight off even the most conditions. Eighty percent of the U.S. virulent foes. And they are settling in Delaware, taking pharmaceuticals industry is headquartered in
the First State and the surrounding states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to Delaware Prosperity Partnership. Global bioscience giants with significant operations in Delaware include Agilent Technologies, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics and W.L. Gore.
Meanwhile, Delaware’s universities are producing young scientists eager to join the fight. But they are also promoting science to elementary, middle and high school students, so that the future will be filled with strong, innovative minds.
“We’re trying to inspire people to see what it means to be a researcher,” says John Koh, interim director of the University of Delaware’s Biotechnology Institute.
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advantage of incubators and innovation spaces designed to promote high-level research and product development. Just take ACROBiosystems, which has offices in Newark and at the Delaware Innovation Space. The company creates recombinant proteins that play a crucial
role in pharmaceutical product development.
Incyte, a Wilmington-based pharmaceutical research company, has been helping patients fight bone cancers and marrow disorders for years, and is also moving into the rheumatoid arthritis space. “A few years ago, we made the commitment to be in Delaware and to house our headquarters here,” says Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer Reid Huber. “It’s important for
our base and important for the state.” And even more is set to come. ID
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