DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announced Monday that it received a $750,000 grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to connect students within the university’s Medical Laboratory Science program resources to further their careers in life sciences.
UMass Dartmouth’s “Stepping Stones: Achieving Greater Diversity in Life Sciences through Laboratory Science” focuses on the university’s and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center’s commitment to increasing diversity within the life sciences industry, the university said. UMass Dartmouth will use the grant funding to add advanced technologies to its laboratory spaces. Among those new technologies are microbiology testing stations, blood testing equipment and cell manipulation hardware.
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The university also said program the new equipment that students will now use will be the same equipment employers within the commonwealth’s life science sector use.
“Growing the life sciences is a critical focus of our university and region,” said Ramprasad Balasubramanian, UMass Dartmouth’s vice chancellor for research and innovation, in a statement. “With a highly-skilled workforce and lab space a fraction of the cost of Boston area facilities, the SouthCoast is only expected to grow its impact in the life sciences industry.”
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