Outlook Dim for Group Backing Biotech Buildup
A networking group created two years ago to nurture Ventura County’s growing biotechnology industry has been foundering and may fold by year’s end.
VCBio President Tim Osslund, a researcher at Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, said a number of factors have stalled the group’s progress.
These include the absence of a full-time staff, insufficient membership and lack of consensus on how best to recruit members.
Executive Director Mary Pat Huxley said there are as many as 300 potential members in the region.
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