Bioversity

For residents in Boston and surrounding communities, 2024 saw heightened discussions about the closure of health care facilities and the elimination of health care resources, highlighting gaps that already existed in lower-income areas and communities of color.

As the state’s biotechnology industry looks forward toward the end of the decade, one focus on its agenda is taking steps to make its workforce better reflect the state’s overall population.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council calls its annual gathering the “State of Possible Conference.” To hear it described by newly elected board chair Tamar Thompson, Massachusetts’ booming life sciences sector is now at a moment when many goals once thought unachievable are now in reach.

The life science workforce development program Bioversity welcomed its first cohort of students Monday at its new lab space in Dorchester.

A new training program in the life sciences aims to bring more people from diverse backgrounds into biotechnology as the industry’s need to fill jobs increases.