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Article: Belgian Biotech Growth Owes Much To Flanders.
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- BIOWORLD Today
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- November 3, 2009
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Washington Editor
Editor's Note: This is part one in a three-part series on biotech development in Flanders, Belgium. Parts two and three will be published in the following two issues.
GHENT, Belgium - In the Flanders region of Belgium, a nation known for culinary delights and diamonds, there also is an established cluster of biotech companies.
"We have a tradition in the region of pioneering life science research," said Rudy Dekeyser, the vice director of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology. Known locally as the VIB, the organization was created to bring together academic investigators and their studies from schools across ...