Patrick hopes to lure L.A. industries; Bay State sights set on star bucks.Byline: John J. Monahan BOSTON - Gov. Deval L. Patrick will be going Hollywood next week - and actually visiting Tinseltown as well - as part of a West Coast economic development swing in which he will try to lure moviemakers and biotechnology and life sciences firms to the Bay State. Mr. Patrick, who also is co-chairman of the Barack Obama campaign, also intends to squeeze in a visit to his hometown of Chicago to meet with Mr. Obama and fellow Democratic governors for a strategy session and "unity dinner" June 19. From there, he takes off for Washington the next day to discuss the state's Medicare waiver funding that is critical to meeting the costs of the state's mandatory health care program. The visit to Hollywood is billed by his staff as a side trip to the moviemaking mov·ie·mak·er n. One that makes movies, especially professionally. mov  ie·mak capital after he attends an international biotechnology
conference where Mr. Patrick plans to trumpet the final approval of the
state's billion dollar life-sciences initiative.
A legislative committee yesterday approved final language changes to the life sciences investment bill, which includes funding for a major genetic therapy research facility in Worcester. State Rep. Daniel E. Bosley The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. , D-North Adams, said last night that the House-Senate conference committee worked out differences between the two chambers' versions of the measure. That agreement clears the way for final passage by the House and Senate over the next two days. The governor is joining a coterie of state officials and lawmakers who intend to promote the tax breaks, infrastructure funding, research grants and other investments authorized by the life sciences bill at the 2008 BIO international conference that opens next week in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . The Massachusetts bill would put up $100 million in tax breaks, investments and research grants annually over the next 10 years to promote life sciences research and manufacturing development in the state. It also would provide $90 million for a genetics research facility at the University of Massachusetts Medical School UMMS is ranked fourth in primary care education among the nation’s 125 medical schools in the 2006 U.S.News & World Report annual guide, “America’s Best Graduate Schools”. UMMS is also a major center for research. in Worcester for research based on the pioneering gene therapy work of Nobel laureate Noun 1. Nobel Laureate - winner of a Nobel prize Nobelist laureate - someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath Dr. Craig Mello Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18 1960 in New Haven, Connecticut) is one of the laureates of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. . The facility, which would cost more than $300 million in state, federal and private funds, also is expected to also house a state stem cell stem cell In living organisms, an undifferentiated cell that can produce other cells that eventually make up specialized tissues and organs. There are two major types of stem cells, embryonic and adult. bank, registry and related research, already under development at the school. A large group of legislators, staff from the state's life sciences and economic development agencies, area life sciences industry representatives and a contingent from the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. are among those from the state attending the conference. It is the largest such conference of its kind, attracting representatives from biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. and pharmaceutical companies and institutions from around the world. Plans for the state's life-sciences initiative were unveiled by the governor last year when the conference was held in Boston. Mr. Patrick plans a side trip to Hollywood to promote movie-making in the Bay State and its state tax breaks and incentives that were approved last year in hopes of expanding the production of movies. He is expected to travel to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. the night of June 18 and meet with movie executives the following day. The governor is scheduled to participate in a keynote luncheon presentation at the San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. on Tuesday, plugging the state's life sciences initiative. He also is to appear with former Florida Gov. John E. "Jeb" Bush to discuss "the role of government in facilitating research and discovery in 2009 and beyond." The BioWorcester group will have a booth in the main exhibition hall, hoping to draw interest in the growing biotechnology industry in the city. The exhibit will highlight the Gateway Park partnership between WPI WPI - Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Worcester Business Development Corporation, Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, Choose Worcester Inc. and the city of Worcester in developing biomedical and life sciences research and industry in Central Massachusetts. The exhibit describes the city as "a hot spot for biotech development" and will be one of more than a dozen Massachusetts exhibits at the expo. UMass Medical School will also be sending a delegation to the convention led by Michael Collins, the school's interim chancellor. ART: PHOTO CUTLINE: Mr. Patrick |
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