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NEXT EVENT: An evening of "Sharing Science"
ORGANIZED BY: Rebecca Pitts, Susan Sloan and Rosa Melendez
LOCATION: Mass Biologic Labs--Directions below
DATE: Tuesday, February 14th
RSVP REQUIRED!!! It is necessary for the Mass Biologic Labs to have a list of attendees..RSVPing is EASY using our new ACTEVA system....click on this link to reserve your free spot at the event: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=104295
Our second evening of science will take place at the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories featuring special speakers:
Donna Ambrosino MD - director of Massacusetts Biologics and
Dilara McCauley, Ph.D., Senior Product Manager at Predix Pharmaceuticals
The MBL, located in Jamaica Plain, is one of only a few publicly operated, FDA-licensed vaccine manufacturing facilities in the country, and is the only one of its kind still operated by a state government. Throughout its history, the labs have introduced into general statewide use vaccines to prevent diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and other diseases.
Other functions of the lab include the development of basic research ideas into new vaccines and plasma products for commercialization and distribution nationwide. Scientists there pioneered such products as the respiratory syncytial virus immune globulin, the first drug to protect infants and toddlers from serious complications of respiratory viruses.
The lab also develops and manufactures "orphan" drugs for diseases that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. Orphan drugs are a public health responsibility because they are needed by too few people to hold enough "commercial appeal" for development by private drug companies.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear more about and visit the MBL and to meet some of your fellow AWIS members.
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Directions to MBL
160 Walk Hll Street, Mattapan, MA 02126
The MBL Mattapan facility is located on the ground of the old Boston State Hospital, bounded by Morton Street (Route 203), American Legion Highway, Walk Hill Street and Harvard Street.
From the MASS PIKE:
Take I-90 to the I-95/Route 128 Exit #14. Merge onto I-95 South. Take the Route 9 East exit towards Boston/Brookline, Exit #20A. Take Route 9 East to Route 1 South, The Jamaica Way. Follow the Jamaica Way past the pond then follow route 203 around a rotary and past Arnold Arboretum, keep to the left over an overpass, straight through a second rotary (route 203 becomes Morton Street). Continue to follow Morton Street/Route 203, pass Shattuck Hospital on your left and Forest Hills cemetery on your right.
Continue under an underpass (American Legion Highway) and turn right at the next light onto the state hospital grounds. The MBL facility is over the top of the hill on your left, just under ½ mile, immediately before the street ends at Walk Hill Street.
Email Joanne.niewood@... if you need directions from different locations
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