Vanderbilt ranked as #12 best place to work in Life Sciences

Vanderbilt was named one of the best places for life scientists to work in academia by The Scientist magazine. It was the seventh time in the eight years of the survey that Vanderbilt was ranked and a substantial improvement from its 2009 ranking.

Vanderbilt was ranked No. 12 in a list headed by Princeton University and including Stanford, Georgia Institute for Technology and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. In 2009, Vanderbilt ranked No. 34 in the survey.
The full article with detailed survey results can be found in the July issue of The Scientist and is available online at www.the-scientist.com/bptw.

With a major research institution like Vandy being ranked so high, there should be no reason we cannot build a burgeoning life-sciences industry to complement their research.

Firms like Biomimetic Therapeutics   and Advanced BioHealing  are already here.

Along with Vandy, they have build it, and others will come.

 

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Advanced BioHealing opens Brentwood, TN office

Advanced BioHealing Inc., a Westport, Conn.-based biotech firm, has opened an office in Brentwood as it expands research and development efforts. The company has leased 5,500 square feet of office space in the Overlook Building with plans to move a lab there from temporary space at the Cumberland Emerging Technologies Life Sciences Center in Nashville.

Advanced BioHealing, which focuses on regenerative medicine, expects to have about 10 Nashville-area employees by year-end. Its research includes additional uses for its lead product, the skin substitute Dermagraft.

Charles E. Hart, the former chief scientific officer at BioMimetic Therapeutics, now works with Advanced BioHealing.

via Business Briefs: Emdeon acquires Florida company | tennessean.com | The Tennessean.

via Advanced BioHealing opens Brentwood, TN office.