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March 13, 2015

OSU builds biotech lab on shoestring budget

  • The 850-square-foot lab is tucked into a basement corner of the school's pharmacy building.
  • By BENNETT HALL
    Corvallis Gazette-Times

    CORVALLIS, Ore. — Tucked away in a corner of the basement of Oregon State University's pharmacy building is a small lab that could reap big benefits for biotech researchers at OSU and throughout the southern Willamette Valley and the central part of the state.

    Dubbed OTRADI South, it's the first outpost beyond the Portland area for the Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute, one of three nonprofit signature research centers run by the public-private Oregon Innovation Council. The new lab is intended to serve many of the same functions as the OTRADI Bioscience Incubator, or OBI, which provides both research facilities, mentoring and business support services for fledgling biotech companies trying to get off the ground.


     
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