Connecting Maine’s Life Science, Health & Engineering industries

Rai Winslow, a national leader in computational medicine based at The Roux Institute, is a principal investigator in a research project being conducted with MaineHealth. The project aims to take complex data sets about patients in the state’s largest cardiothoracic ICU and translate them into metrics that could better predict adverse outcomes — in time for physicians to avert them whenever possible.

The program, which was created in partnership with Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, and is fueled by an industry partnerships grant from the Maine Department of Labor, is a way to incentivize recent college graduates to explore their interests in the healthcare industry, while simultaneously helping to fill major gaps in Maine’s workforce.

How can we strengthen, deepen, and expand the life sciences network to advance the economy in Maine? That was the question posed to a group of life science professionals and stakeholders at the Roux Institute’s inaugural Life Sciences Forum this September. 

The three-credit course, “Biotechnology Applications Laboratory,” strengthened students’ skillsets, expanded their professional connections, and let them experience new types of jobs in biotech.