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Print Edition StoriesThursday, June 25, 2009
MLSC continues funding Mass. stem cell bank
By Mass High Tech staff
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The International Stem Cell Registry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School will receive $695,000 from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) after the center’s board of directors approved to continue funding the registry.
Last September, the MLSC, a quasi-public agency, gave an investment of $570,000 to launch the registry with UMass Medical School.
The ISCR is intended to be an online registry, developed for both private and public use, that tracks human embryonic stem cell information and applications. The database, when completed, will provide information on every human embryonic stem cell available, with verying degrees of complexity.
The 15,000-square-foot Massachusetts Stem Cell Bank is located in Shrewsbury at the UMass Medical School campus. The MLSC originally funded the Bank with a $7.7 million grant.
The MLSC is a quasi-public agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts tasked with implementing the Massachusetts Life Sciences Act, a 10-year, $1 billion initiative that was signed into law in June of 2008.
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