Stem cell center in Detroit looks to create jobs.
Excerpt:
A new stem cell commercialization center is set to open in Detroit's
TechTown incubator as early as July and is seeking federal grants to bring new high-tech jobs to the city.
"Direct
jobs will be laboratory technicians, perhaps a scientist eventually, an
administrator and all of the things that you need to run a lab and a
business," center director James Eliason
told The South End, Wayne State University's student newspaper.
The center,
announced by Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano in February,
received $750,000
from the county for construction and recently awarded $4.1 million by
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the build-out
of 15,000 square feet of wet labs.
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