Patrick Breeding was a biomedical engineering grad student at the University of Maine when, with his co-founder Amber Boutiette, started working with proteins called glycoproteins found in lobsters.
WABI (Channel 5) reported that Marin Skincare, a small business established by University of Maine graduates Patrick Breeding and Amber Boutiette, has received a grant of $14,000 from the Buoy Maine pitch competition. Buoy Maine, a program sponsored by Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine, seeks to foster innovation and entrepreneurship to support Maineâs working waterfront and coastal communities.
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March 11, 2021 Alumni
Marin Skincare is a Maine story.
It started in 2013 when co-founders Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding met on the first day of their first year as biomedical engineering undergraduate students at the University of Maine. Nearly eight years later, the pair has relocated to Portland, launched a specialty skincare product made with lobster glycoprotein, and is now teaming with an established Maine brand, Lukeâs Lobster, to scale their supply chain and meet strong demand for their first product.
Lukeâs Lobster, a seafood company founded by third-generation lobsterman Luke Holden, has been part of the Marin story from the beginning. The Lukeâs Lobster ethos is focused on sustainable, traceable seafood that supports the coastal communities essential to its harvest. Boutiette and Breeding (â17, â19G) were introduced to Holden by Robert Bayer, former director of the UMaine Lobster
The Bangor Daily News reported on Marin Skincare, owned by University of Maine alumni Patrick Breeding and Amber Boutiette, and how it is operating in the New England Ocean Cluster waterfront business incubator in South Portland. The company, which earned a funding award from Maine Sea Grant through its Buoy Maine competition, makes skin hydration […]
Shellfish enterprise aims to cultivate gold mussels, expand Maine’s seed hatchery
George Harvey Mon, 02/01/2021 - 8:15pm
Gold Mussels created by the Downeast Institute in partnership with Blue Hill Bay Mussels. (Courtesy Downeast Institute)
Downeast Institute production manager Kyle Pepperman and Blue Hill Bay Mussels’ Evan Young. (Courtesy Maine Sea Grant)
Gold Mussels created by the Downeast Institute in partnership with Blue Hill Bay Mussels. (Courtesy Downeast Institute)
Gold Mussels created by the Downeast Institute in partnership with Blue Hill Bay Mussels. (Courtesy Downeast Institute)
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