Medical doctor and former Congressman Joe Schwartz has joined the board
of
MichBio. He explains how promising the biotechnology is for this area as
well as frankly stating that "Pfizer made a mistake."
Excerpt:
That tremendously talented group of people at the Pfizer facility in
Ann Arbor is not replaceable. You can't make a replica of what they had
there elsewhere. So they're an East Coast company, their executives are
basically East Coast people, and I have to say that in my lifetime,
which is now getting to be relatively long, I've never felt the East
Coast clique had an understanding of the Midwest and of the great
research universities in the Midwestern states in Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
But we know how good we are and there's no question in my mind that
the slack will be taken up and that new and even better research is
going to be done and that the commitment of the University of Michigan,
of the city of Ann Arbor, of the state of Michigan to play over this
unfortunate happenstance of Pfizer leaving - the commitment to play
over that is tremendous.
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