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With its’ back-to-back announcements of new “StartupPHL
‘Call for Ideas’” Awards and a major British life science
company’s decision to establish U.S. headquarters at the
Navy Yard, the current city administration keeps pushing the
transformative tech/entrepreneurial agenda
N.J. leads nation in
'zombie' homes
in its waning months in office.
Today (Friday), Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger
announced that the British biopharmaceutical company
Villanova law school
still paying price
Adaptimmune will locate its U.S. HQ and
Clinical/Manufacturing Operations at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, in the process creating more than 110 new jobs. The
47,400 square foot facility will house a state-of- the-art
manufacturing facility designed to support clinical
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development and initial commercialization of Adaptimmune’s
engineered immunotherapies for cancer. The work utilizes
the body’s own machinery – the T-cell- to target and destroy
cancer cells. GlaxoSmithKline is a strategic collaborator and
licensor of the therapy. First spawned in Oxford, U.K. in
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Yesterday, several grassroot and youth startup concerns
were endorsed in the latest round of “Call for Ideas” grants.
Teen technologists will gain helping hands through funding
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of Schoolyard Ventures ($6,000), the education-supporting
TechGirlz Charitable Foundation ($19,900) and the
incubating “Building Hero Project” of Tiny WPA ($25,000.)
Other grants will help the Asociacion Puertorriquenos En
Marcha ($20,000) to develop a pop-up market at
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Susquehanna, to advise would-be entrepreneurs through
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of the Arts ($15,000.)
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