Openclusters

Last Friday the House Republican Study Committee sent a letter to Nancy
Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, the Speaker of the House and Majority Leader,
respectively, requesting an increase in the current H1B visa quota of 65,000 per year to 115,000.
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“In Boston, Michael Brennan, property manager for the private company
that operates the South Station bus terminal, said total passenger
traffic has risen about 2,000 people a day in recent years to 12,000 on
average, driven by lower fares and the ease of use compared to flying.
Business travelers and students alike take advantage of the low fares.”

“Buses aren’t alone in seeing traffic spikes to New York. Amtrak reports
it carried 613,000 people between its three Boston-area stops last year
and New York’s Penn Station, up from 460,800 in 2006. At the same time,
air travel seems to be under pressure: Farecompare.com
shows 624,679 passengers flying from Boston’s Logan airport to New
York’s LaGuardia airport for the first 11 months of 2007, the latest
data available. That’s about 10,000 fewer people than in the same
period in 2006. Rick Seaney, the firm’s chief executive, said the
difference likely reflects fewer seats on the route and rising costs
pressuring people to take the train or bus.”

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· What is it you do?
I m in charge of I-STEM partnerships and business development. I-STEM (Institute for Stem Cells in the Treatment and Study of Monogenic Diseases) is involve in the evaluation of the full therapeutic potential of all types of human stem cells in the treatment of monogenic diseases. · What is your next exciting milestone?
The next exciting partnership for I-STEM scientists.

· Where will you spend you next holiday and why?
Morgins, Switzerland (http://www.morgins.ch) where my sister lives. We plan to have some ski and fun.

· Favorite bar in Paris? Another city (anywhere in the world)?
Restaurants : Le Balzac, Paris or Spoon, Paris

What is it you do?
I source exciting science from academic institutions and start companies to develop these ideas into important therapeutics.
What is your next exciting milestone?
Start our next company.
Where will you spend you next holiday and why?
Cancun, Mexico - escaping Boston’s cold weather and enjoying the sun and the beach with my family.
Favorite bar in Boston? Another city (anywhere in the world)?
The Biltmore (Newton, MA) - a terrific gastropub. Buddakan’s bar in New York city is excellent too…
Jeff is the Head of Business Operations, BI3 , the New Ventures Incubator of  Biogen Idec.

Maybe you do. However, this blog is not about me. I will post about people I meet, work with, have beers with, and exchange ideas, business cards, emails. Eventually this may give you an idea of what I do but more importantly it should tell who are the contributors to some of the most interesting and successful clusters in technology in Europe and the USA.
I must aknowledge that the idea of posting portraits came from Xavier Quillet’s blog. Xavier stopped posting last spring but had an interesting galery on French biotechnologists and entrepreneurs.