Bio­gen Foun­da­tion dou­bles down on next gen­er­a­tion STEM neu­ro­science to kick off its next decade

The Bio­gen Foun­da­tion is launch­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of its stu­dent sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ty Lab as it marks 20 years of phil­an­thropy this week. Dubbed Com­mu­ni­ty Lab 2.0, the new ef­fort will in­clude an up­grad­ed neu­ro­science ed­u­ca­tion­al cur­ricu­lum, a first-ever alum­ni sup­port net­work and a broad­er glob­al reach for STEM stu­dents.

The foun­da­tion is al­so in­creas­ing its stu­dent reach goal. While the foun­da­tion and lab served more than 60,000 stu­dents in the first 20 years, Bio­gen plans to reach 30,000 more STEM stu­dents in the next three years for a to­tal of 90,000 by 2025. Its fo­cus is on pop­u­la­tions that have been his­tor­i­cal­ly un­der­rep­re­sent­ed in sci­ence which ties to Bio­gen’s broad­er com­mit­ment to health eq­ui­ty and in­clu­sion.

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