Toast Drop allows your organization to provide you with the food you love and the flexibility you desire while supporting the struggling local restaurants in our community. Please put in your...
In March, organizations all over the country scrambled to adapt their businesses as the global pandemic made its way into the U.S. As a world leader in innovation, Kendall has...
Toast Drop allows your organization to provide you with the food you love and the flexibility you desire while supporting the struggling local restaurants in our community. Please put in your...
Toast Drop allows your organization to provide you with the food you love and the flexibility you desire while supporting the struggling local restaurants in our community. Please put in your...
Covid-19 has created many challenges but the biggest question on every organization’s mind right now is: How do we support caregivers and create a culture that normalizes the need to...
Toast Drop allows your organization to provide you with the food you love and the flexibility you desire while supporting the struggling local restaurants in our community. Please put in...
Building on two years of insights drawn from the KSA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion learning community, Inclusion Drives Innovation focuses on addressing racism as the critical starting point that enables...
Inclusion Drives Innovation is a twelve-week professional development program designed by and for Kendall Square Association members focused on building anti-racist organizations, understanding cultural and social identity, unpacking bias, microaggressions,...
Astellas Venture Management LLC, a venture capital subsidiary of Astellas Pharma Inc., and LabCentral are collaborating on their latest “Golden Ticket Competition.” A Golden Ticket offers entrepreneurial scientists or emerging biotechnology start-ups one-year usage...
On July 8, educational leaders MIT and Harvard filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s plan to strip visas from foreign students whose courses are entirely online. Last week, the White...
Foreign students are a vital asset to the Kendall ecosystem especially at this time when we are all focused on creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future.
This $900M deal will allow Takeda to option licensing both programs after preclinical proof-of-concept studies are concluded, before taking over clinical development and commercialization.
This fund has a goal of tackling longstanding racial inequity and social justice issues in the Greater Boston Area. Fund leaders include Pamela Everhart, Senior Vice President of Fidelity Investments, and Quincy Miller, President...
Kendall Square Association’s (KSA) Future of (How we) Work Task Force answers critical questions about how our innovation ecosystem will return to work in a post-COVID-19 world. COVID-19 and the...
Café du Pays’ spot on Cardinal Medeiros Ave has a long and storied history. Since the building’s original 1894 construction, it’s been a bodega, a gentlemen’s bar, a speakeasy, two...
Take in the great views of the Boston skyline and the Esplanade, as well as other nearby landmarks like the Zakim Bridge, M.I.T., the Museum of Science, and more. Reserve...
Paul Aliu, Global Head of Medical Governance at Novartis, has his team working on identifying existing treatments for COVID-19 patients in the short term as others look for a vaccine. Read...
They have put sensors in their main entrances to open doors with the simple wave of a hand. CIC has been a leader in building thorough and transparent protocols for employees' safe return to work.
In June, Pfizer announced that it had launched a new initiative for investing in biotechnology companies and committed up to $500 million to fund the effort. The Pfizer Breakthrough Growth...
It’s much like many of the other mid-rise office and lab towers that have gone up during the tech-and-life-science district’s long-running boom, but its lobby will serve as an indoor-outdoor gathering...
Good news: Kendall restaurants have made it easier for you by offering outdoor dining for this unusual summer. Be sure to stop by our favorite chicken joints– Lily P’s and...
Recent history suggests a new vaccine entering human clinical trials has about a 1-in-3 chance of getting FDA approval. Stephane Bancel, chief executive of Moderna, pegs the chances of his company’s novel coronavirus vaccine at closer to 80% to 90%.
Kendall Square Association’s 12th Annual Meeting Kendall Together was a powerful moment for our innovation ecosystem–bringing our community together and celebrating our successes amidst global crises, and looking with optimism to the...
Phase two of the state’s reopening plan — which includes outdoor table service at restaurants — will begin on Monday, June 8. See the full list via Eater Boston.
The third CIC building in their Cambridge campus, features 90,000 square feet of creative office and event space for innovators of all stripes to work, collide, and connect.
To help patients that have recently lost their health insurance due to COVID-19, Bristol Myers Squibb has expanded their patient support programs by offering access to all branded BMS medicine for free.
The Biogen Foundation is donating $10 million to provide immediate relief for communities affected by COVID-19. The funding will be used to address immediate critical needs, with the majority of donations going to support non-profit organizations that are working to address critical issues like expanding testing options, easing the strain on our medical systems, providing training and protection for front line health workers and ensuring people have access to necessities like food.
In June, Pfizer announced that it had launched a new initiative for investing in biotechnology companies and committed up to $500 million to fund the effort, which focuses on internal medicine, inflammation and immunology, cancer, rare diseases, vaccines and hospital treatments.
Kendall is leading in creating solutions to our current crisis and reimagining a future that is more resilient and inclusive. Together we are enabling a reimagined future in the face...
We’re hooked on cars, despite the gridlock. Only powerful incentives will change that, but major employers make it too easy to drive.
“You can’t find the cure for cancer while sitting in traffic.”
It’s become a persistent refrain for the booming biotech companies of Kendall Square.
Massachusetts is a global economic leader because of our culture of innovation, but our transportation system is holding us back. Employee commutes are becoming longer and more unpredictable. Our status...
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, a state agency that runs the system, estimates it will take about $10.1 billion and 13 more years to modernize it, with costs expected to rise as equipment ages. The agency said the fare increase was aimed at helping cover a budget deficit and making system improvements.
On Tuesday, June 11th at 6:00 am a Red Line train at JFK/UMass Station derailed, and much of the Massachusetts economy got temporarily derailed with it. For days, our workforce...
The 2019 Kendall Square Challenge was a huge success because in Kendall — when we work together, there is nothing we can’t achieve. This year’s Kendall Square Challenge was bigger,...
2019 marks the KSA’s 10th Anniversary, and we have something much bigger in mind than birthday cake and balloons. Rather, we want to celebrate by collaboratively, vividly, and visibly showcasing...
New Power, by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms, feels like it was written for Kendall Square, one of the world’s most powerful epicenters of technological innovation. Kendall Square has fundamentally transformed...
As a Kendall Square Association (KSA) member, you can get things done that simply cannot be done alone. Our Learning Communities (formerly known as Committees) provide a forum to collaborate...
The Kendall Square Association (KSA) is delighted to partner with Ceasar McDowell and the Civic Designers team to meet the ambitious challenge we set at the KSA 2018 Annual Meeting. We asked the question:...
How would you describe the color blue to a person who can’t see color? After a minute of blinking blankly, the Kendall Square Association (KSA) staff began to break through...
In Massachusetts, this year’s election day is ominously consequential for the thousands of transgender residents living in our state. On the ballot is a referendum that threatens the freedom and...
Rather than drive the 10 miles to his home in Lexington, one Kendall Square employee sometimes runs the distance, to avoid rush hour traffic. He says it takes the same...
The tech and life science industries have a racial diversity and inclusion crisis. Can Kendall Square play a part in changing that? Nationwide, the numbers are bad. But, if anything,...
The event that got 300 Kendall Square tech and life science workers outside for an afternoon of fun — to benefit six nonprofits. Tech and life science workers weren’t the...
