Peoria in talks to create biotech incubator with TGen

June 21, 2010

By hammersmith

[Source: The Arizona Republic] – Peoria may have found the catalyst to diversify its economy. City economic developers are in talks to create a biotech incubator with downtown Phoenix-based Translational Genomics Research Institute, referred to as TGen, and the Core Institute, which specializes in orthopedics.

Councilwoman Cathy Carlat described the news as “the thing we’ve been waiting for all along.”
 
“This is like bombshell kind of good news for us,” she said.

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