By Tom Doran
December 16, 2020 at 10:10 pm CST
ST. LOUIS â The seed to promote regional expansion of biotechnology-related research and businesses for the âGateway Cityâ and bi-state area was first planted 25 years ago and has since turned into a bumper crop that has reached the farm.
The St. Louis BioBelt Plant and Life Science Strategy promoted economic and scientific development in the greater metropolitan area and beyond through the research and development business opportunities in the sciences.
Existing companies such as then-Monsanto, Sigma Aldrich and Bunge were there at the beginning, as were the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, Center for Emerging Technologies and Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, among others.