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Belated Happy Birthday, VDC

The VDC turned 11 in May 2020, but there was no opportunity to celebrate in person as all of our community expect for the biotech and healthcare members were working remotely. I’ve tallied what’s been accomplished. From July 1,...

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The reason there are more VC backed female CEOs

Samantha Truex (front, left in the company's team photo), CEO of Quench Bio, closed a $50M Series A Since opening the Venture Development Center in 2009, I’ve noticed a much larger number of women in the biopharma startup companies launching at the UMass incubator in...

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