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Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has committed $1.5 million to Penn State to create the Sartorius Cell Culture Facility, which will expand Penn State’s biotechnology ecosystem.
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Sartorius Stedim Biotech’s $1.5 million donation creates cell culture facility at Penn State University
January 21, 2021 GMT
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. and GOETTINGEN, Germany, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has committed $1.5 million to Penn State University to create the Sartorius Cell Culture Facility. It is slated to open in the first quarter of 2021 on the University Park campus.
“This donation from Sartorius is a tremendous investment in biotechnology at Penn State and a huge step forward in our organizations’ partnership,” said Lora G. Weis, senior vice president for research at Penn State. “Across our University’s $1 billion research enterprise, few areas have as much potential for widespread impact as biotechnology. Sartorius is helping to ensure that
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