16 May A New Era: Wisconsin Leading The Future Biohealth Landscape
FUJIFILM cellular dynamics has a lofty goal, says CEO Tomoyuki Hasegawa: “To be one of the top three cell therapy contract development and manufacturing organizations in the world. That’s the target.”
To achieve that, the company needs to be in a location that offers a solid pipeline of skilled talent, a reliable and efficient supply chain and a thriving biohealth ecosystem to support growth. But it didn’t look to the coasts; instead, Japanese parent company FUJIFILM Holdings, which acquired Cellular Dynamics in 2015, opted to keep the company where it was founded—in Madison, Wisconsin. In fact, in December, it announced a $200 million investment to, in part, fund a brand-new 175,000-square-foot headquarters in Madison’s BioMidwest hub of life science companies and academia. Read more…