Puerto Rican governor to receive award for efforts for the biotechnology industry in Puerto Rico

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Cited from endi.com Acevedo Vilá, will participate today in the Biotechnological Industry Organization annual meeting that will hand him the prize for “Governor of the Year”, for his efforts favoring biotechnology in Puerto Rico’s economy. Accompanying the governor in Chicago is Jorge Silva Puras, secretary of Economic Development and Eduardo Bhatia, executive director of the Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration. “The government of Puerto Rico plans to initiate the construction of the Center for Research and Training in Bioprocesses in Mayagüez this summer. Also, we will start the construction for a Molecular Sciences building affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico in Cupey and a new cancer center together with the Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.” In recent years biotechnological companies like Amgen and Brystol Myers Squibb have invested over $2,000 million in Puerto Rico.