WISCONSIN — On Monday, President Joe Biden announced the creation of 31 technology hubs across the United States. This includes the creation of the Wisconsin-based Biohealth Tech Hub.
Lisa Johnson, CEO of BioForward Wisconsin — the group she's tasked with leading — offered some insight into how the new initiative might work.
“Now we're going to move to a Phase II designation,” Johnson said. “The first designation with Phase I didn't give us any funding, although we did get a planning grant that will give us $350,000 to put toward some workforce development programming.”
If all goes according to plan for the new Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub, various groups in the Badger State could work together to advance the state's leadership in how to approach personalized medicine nationally.
“They put in these technology hubs because they say, 'We can't just have the coasts with all the investment,'” Johnson said. “We need to invest across the country and innovation doesn't just happen on the 'coasts', it happens everywhere.”
Watch the full interview above.
