The UMB BioPark will have a new tenant when a subsidiary of a Massachusetts-based company locates its corporate headquarters there early next year, the state Department of Business and Economic Development.
BIOMERE LLC, a subsidiary of Worcester, Mass.-based Biomedical Research Models, will expand the vaccine platform developed by its parent with 14,000 square feet of space at the center. The company plans to initially hire up to 25 employees.
“The close proximity to the University of Maryland, multiple government agencies and installations such as NIH and Fort Detrick, plus the concentration of more than 350 biotech companies made Maryland very attractive to us,” Dennis Guberski, BIOMERE chairman, said in a statement.
