PORT ST. LUCIE — The Research Coast is a sprint against other biotech hubs to land more companies. It will take longer to generate local jobs at Oregon Health & Science University’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, which announced Tuesday it would create a center at Tradition. “It took 60 years to create the Research Triangle (in North Carolina). We’re going to make that happen in a little less than 10 years,” said state Sen. Ken Pruitt, R-Port St. Lucie. “This is about our kids and, when you run a relay race, you run as fast as you can.” The Senate president foresees big returns from the institute’s arrival and the opening of Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies. California-based Mann Research Center intends to build a $100 million, 400,000-square- foot life sciences complex next to the two research firms in the Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition. Read full article below.
