Medbio In the News
April 25, 2011
West Michigan's stock rising in the life sciences despite funding challenges
Friday, April 08, 2011
By Nathan Peck | LabWork
WEST MICHIGAN - Looking around the country, John Woodhouse is seeing stock in West Michigan's life science industry on the rise.
As sales and marketing manager at Medbio, a contract manufacturer for the biotech and life sciences industries, Woodhouse is finding that the growing reputation for the region is helping his company gain new business."Business is good, it is really good. I attribute it to getting the name out there. We have our own little medical device Mecca here in town, but we're nowhere near the size of Minneaplolis, Boston or L.A.," Woodhouse said, noting that partnerships with other companies in West Michigan give the area some momentum. "With the West Michigan Medical Device Consortium, Southwest Michigan First, and The Right Place Inc., we have all these little consortiums, and we have always as a group promoted West Michigan. We have the capacity here to do it all. I can't do it all myself, but I can do it all here in West Michigan."