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Baltimore should be investing more in ‘wet labs’ | READER COMMENTARY

By December 13, 2021News
Nam Nguyen, a scientist at the company he founded, 3DNamics, works Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, in a Johns Hopkins wet lab. (Ulysses Muñoz/Baltimore Sun). (Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Sun)

Nam Nguyen, a scientist at the company he founded, 3DNamics, works Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, in a Johns Hopkins wet lab. (Ulysses Muñoz/Baltimore Sun). (Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Sun)

The critical shortage of “wet lab” space in Baltimore is an indictment of a city economic development strategy more concerned with real estate development than with job development (”Baltimore officials hoping to address shortage of ‘wet lab’ space to retain more innovators,” Nov. 15). Colin Tarbert, head of the Baltimore Development Corporation, warned that the shortage jeopardizes the city’s ability to retain existing life science companies, let alone attract new ones.

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