Mass Innovation Labs Partners with Scientific Placement Firm Stratacuity

Partnership will provide services that bring top talent and human resources to biopharmaceutical companies residing at Mass Innovation Labs

Cambridge, Mass. — January 09, 2018—Mass Innovation Labs, the world’s leading accelerated commercialization program for the biopharmaceutical industry, today announced a partnership with Stratacuity, a leading Boston-area scientific placement firm, to provide an array of staffing and human resources support to its member companies.

Mass Innovation Labs’ groundbreaking program in Kendall Square, which opened its doors in 2015, has been providing emerging biopharmaceutical companies such as CRISPR Therapeutics and Editas Medicine with turnkey laboratory and office space and operational support that has them up and running in a matter of weeks. Through the partnership with Stratacuity, member companies at Mass Innovation Labs will now have access to talent placement and consulting services critical to the success of any emerging company. Services may include:

• Candidate acquisition and recruiting

• Market research and consulting services

• Human resources support

• Pay scale analysis

“Our strategic partnership with Stratacuity will play a crucial role in our member companies’ success,” said Amrit Chaudhuri, CEO and co-founder of Mass Innovation Labs. “The experts at Stratacuity can help our member companies with one of the most important challenges they face – identifying and hiring the right talent in this highly competitive industry. These are critical decisions that are made at key times in a company’s development, and Stratacuity will use their expertise to give our member companies a distinct advantage.”

Stratacuity has been helping emerging scientific companies find the right employees to hire for 17 years with expertise in recruitment, market analysis, human resources consulting and other services. Stratacuity supports growing companies in their search for various needs including discovery & preclinical, clinical development and operations, regulatory affairs & quality assurance as well as technical operations.

“We are excited to enter into this partnership with Mass Innovation Labs and to have the opportunity to work with their innovative and cutting-edge member companies.” said Jeff D’Italia, VP of Stratacuity “We’re experts at helping innovative BioPharma companies hire and build world-class discovery, development and clinical teams. Mass Innovation Labs has attracted extremely high caliber companies who understand the power of shared resourcing to fuel rapid growth. We see this partnership as an excellent match and look forward to helping MIL and their Member Companies achieve their goals of bringing novel therapeutics to patients in need.”

For more information on Mass Innovation Labs, please visit www.massinnovationlabs.com or join us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Mass Innovation Labs

Mass Innovation Labs embodies an ecosystem of innovators across the biotech, pharmaceutical and technology industries. With locations emerging throughout the Boston area, we’re providing first-class space for growing companies to have access to comprehensive lab needs, including animal facilities, onsite CRO support, and technological and operational needs. Our goal is to reduce the time it takes for member companies to overcome hurdles in achieving their clinical milestones. For more information, please visit www.massinnovationlabs.com or join us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Stratacuity

Stratacuity, a division of Apex Life Sciences, is a leading Boston-area scientific placement firm that partners with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to provide retained, contingency, and contract/consulting resources. Born in 2000 out of a profound and personal need to understand and battle Cystic Fibrosis, we make it a point to know and care about the cures our clients seek. Stratacuity is built to find better people who are dedicated to making a difference scientifically, and that ideal guides every step in our placement process. We connect companies to candidates, candidates to careers, and careers to scientific advancement. For more information please visit us at www.stratacuity.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. Proven Scientific Placement™ (NYSE: ASGN)

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