Fu­ji­film dou­bles down on Boston foothold, rent­ing some ma­jor legroom to chase cell and gene ther­a­pies

Fu­ji­film has fi­nal­ly crossed the t’s and dot­ted the i’s on a new pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ship for a cen­ter fo­cused on ge­net­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied cell ther­a­pies af­ter the idea first came to fruition in late 2019.

On Thurs­day, the Japan­ese con­glom­er­ate and the Mass­a­chu­setts Cen­ter for Ad­vanced Bi­o­log­i­cal In­no­va­tion and Man­u­fac­tur­ing an­nounced that they’d se­cured $76 mil­lion in fund­ing and signed a lease for a 40,000 square-foot site in the greater Boston area.

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