Pennsylvania Biotech Center In Doylestown Launches Podcast

DOYLESTOWN, PA — The Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC) has launched a new podcast, “Biotech Insiders with Lou Kassa,” which is on most podcast providers and the PABC website.

Louis P. Kassa III, chief executive officer of the PABC, Hepatitis B Foundation and Baruch S. Blumberg Institute hosts the podcast. His conversation with Timothy M. Block, Ph.D., co-founder of the three organizations, is the centerpiece of episode No. 1.

The first episode of “Biotech Insiders” also includes some local biotech news and a segment on the PABC’s academic programs. This installment has insights from a recent graduate of Central Bucks High School East, Madison Charnigo, who studied and worked at the PABC through the AP Chemistry Partnership Program between her school district and the PABC. She is a student at Purdue University on a prestigious Beering Scholarship.

The PABC uses a highly successful services-based approach to nurture and guide its member companies to success, advance biotechnology, maximize synergies among nonprofit scientists and their commercial colleagues, and launch new ideas and discoveries that will make a positive impact. The PABC has nearly 100 member companies and organizations, mostly small to mid-size science, research and pharmaceutical companies.

Nearly 50 of those companies operate on the Doylestown campus, which is home to the Hepatitis B Foundation and the Blumberg Institute. The PABC also manages B+labs at Cira Centre, a new incubator in Philadelphia, in partnership with Brandywine Realty Trust.

PABC companies have produced numerous FDA-approved drugs and medical devices, and a recent study found that the PABC’s economic impact exceeded $7.3 billion and created more than 1,100 new jobs during 2016-2021. Please visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter (@BiotechnologyPa) and Facebook.