Wisconsin will receive a regional tech hub designation from the federal government focused on the state’s growing biohealth sector, with President Joe Biden saying he thinks work being done in the state will save lives.
The Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub aims to make the state a “global leader” in personalized medicine, a health care approach that uses a patient’s genetic sequence, medical record and environment to diagnose and treat them more efficiently, according to the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
The agency said the designation will allow Wisconsin to use its “track record of commercializing medical research” to improve manufacturing coordination and data sharing, as well as expand lab space and computing capacity.