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WBUR Radio Boston: How Kendall Square Became the Epicenter of the Biotech World, with Phillip Sharp, MIT, and Robin Scheffler, MIT

Jun 7, 2018

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How Kendall Square Became The Epicenter Of The Biotech World

 June 05, 2018

By Meghna Chakrabarti and Chris Citorik
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Forty years ago, Kendall Square was surrounded by abandoned factories and empty parking lots. Now, it is a bustling center of the biotech industry, and one of the best places in the world to launch a biotechnology startup company.

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Phillip Sharp, co-founder of Biogen, Nobel Prize winner, institute professor at MIT.

Robin Scheffler, assistant professor at MIT, biotech industry historian. He tweets @cancerhistorian.

This segment aired on June 5, 2018.

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