Baker-Polito Administration Funds Aging Innovation Hub in Cambridge | MeHI
Summary
AGENCY forms a crossroads where innovators in all sectors with aging and longevity as a lens will be able to meet, host events, engage the healthcare community in Greater Boston, turn their ideas into commercial successes, and grow their companies (http://cic.com/agency). “Massachusetts has the ability to continue to attract this growing sector, drive partnership activity, and shape the future of the healthcare industry, especially in the area of aging and longevity.” AGENCY will be housed in the CIC’s new location at 245 Main Street, Cambridge, in the heart of Kendall Square’s thriving innovation community and across the Charles River from several of the top research hospitals in the world. “Industry clusters provide a center of excellence to tackle global problems”, said Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO of the CIC, who also cofounded Lab Central, a wetlab coworking space for biotechs, and MassRobotics for IOT and robotics companies. As a founding sponsor, MeHI will represent the Commonwealth on AGENCY’s Board of Advisors for the first two years, helping develop strategy and programs that will bring together public policy leaders, digital health entrepreneurs, and medical researchers from across the state. “We’re particularly thrilled to have the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as our partner from day one, both to learn the opportunities and challenges they see at the systems-level, and to establish an invaluable feedback loop between entrepreneurs and policymakers to expand the flow of information and innovation more broadly,” added Carrie Allen, AGENCY cofounder.