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• COVID Testing Advice from Innovation Experts

  On November 20, the public got a glimpse into the new approaches to COVID-19 testing coming out of Kendall Square. Experts with specialties in mapping the human genome, best in...

• • Restaurants + Bars

  Now is a crucial time to show support for Kendall's restaurants and retailers. With foot traffic down 90% in Kendall, we all need to go out of our way to buy gift cards, place orders to pick up, and spend money with these stores that are working so hard to hang on.

• • Transportation

  With the drastic drop in ridership of public transportation due to the pandemic, the MBTA has proposed major service cuts. Many transportation advocates argue that a pandemic is a short-term crisis that should not dictate long-term policy.

• • COVID-19

  After announcing its experimental COVID-19 vaccine to be 95% effective, Pfizer asked the FDA to authorize their COVID-19 vaccine.

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  • COVID-19

  Last Friday, we zoomed into the epicenter of innovation and spoke with experts about how Kendall Square is developing new approaches to enable more and better testing.

• Support Small Businesses

  Now is a crucial time to show support for Kendall’s restaurants and retailers. With foot traffic down 90% in Kendall, we all need to go out of our way to...

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  • COVID-19

  How Kendall Champions Culture in a Global Pandemic

  Workplace culture attracts, retains, and inspires talent. While every organization’s culture is unique, we all have experienced challenges related to workplace culture, especially in the transition from on-site to remote...

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Stephen Pitt—Head of JLABS, US North East, Johnson & Johnson Innovation

• • Culture

  Help your team stay connected and engaged with Private Group Zoom Yoga and Guided Meditation Classes with Healthy Yoga Life.

• • COVID-19

  The Boston Globe's Shirley Leung and Tim Logan detail Massachusetts' options for exploring a second lockdown and the implications this can have on our economy.

• • COVID-19

  Pfizer is getting close to having a COVID-19 vaccine ready for the public but the drug maker, the government, and the public health community faces a new challenge: quickly making millions of doses of the vaccine.

• • COVID-19

  Early Data Show Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Jen Faigel, Executive Director—CommonWealth Kitchen

• The Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC) has named Kenneth Turner their new President and Chief Executive Officer.

• • Transportation

  The MBTA will announce which services will be prioritized and protected for the year ahead and which will have proposed changes.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  As a platinum sponsor of LabCentral, Bristol Myers Squibb has awarded Lucy Therapeutics and Vincere Biosciences a 2020 Golden Ticket!

• • COVID-19

  Pfizer announced that the early analysis of its trial COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing the disease among volunteers.

• • Restaurants + Bars

  Earnest Drinks opened its doors at 399 Binney Street offering a fun mix of cocktails and ice cream!

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Eric Quadrino, Partner—Sulmona Restaurant

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Synlogic's CEO Aoife Brennan shares her experience working with a growing team during the pandemic.

• • COVID-19

  Moderna's CEO has announced that their COVID-19 vaccine might be available as early as December for emergency use.

• • Biopharma
  • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Last week, Anne Heatherington, Ph.D., senior vice president and head of Data Sciences Institute at Takeda shared that competitive barriers that typically limit the sharing of data have been broken down during the global response.

• • COVID-19

  CIC Health is offering COVID-19 testing to organizations and individuals in an accessible, easy, and fast way.

• Engineering Serendipity During a Global Pandemic

  When it comes to business development and networking in the age of COVID-19, no one knows where to start. Business centers once bustling with lunch time rushes, coffee meetings and...

• Welcome, CIC to Toast Drop!

  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...

• • Transportation

  To keep riders informed during the COVID-19 outbreak, the MBTA is piloting new real-time information on crowding.

• • COVID-19
  • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Moderna has been working with local communities to reach a diverse population for its COVE Phase 3 study. They've now enrolled 28,618 participants in the study and approximately 34.5% of them are from diverse communities.

• • COVID-19

  If Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine study shows positive results by the end of the month they would have data on its safety by the third week of November.

• Time to Vote!

  We are headed into our nation’s most logistically challenging election season, but here in Kendall, we’re working together to get out the vote.  We want to provide you with all...

• Last week, Life Science Cares hosted its Impact Breakfast Re-Imagined! The community came together to raise $605K to help them continue their work dismantling poverty and increasing equity in our communities.

• • Culture
  • Retail + Shopping

  Cambridge Marriott has reopened its doors on October 2. Their "Commitment to Clean" is their greatest focus and they look forward to reconnecting with the Kendall community in the weeks and months ahead.

• • Technology

  With the pandemic taking a toll on people’s mental health, Facebook is launching a collection of resources to help support its users.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  "Science has long been the country’s greatest engine for health, economic prosperity, and national security. Today, the need for science is greater than ever as we face an avalanche of challenges unlike at any time in history," says Eric Lander, president and founder of the Broad Institute in his opinion piece for the Boston Globe.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Jon Feinman—CEO, InnerCity Weightlifting

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Jeremy Bluestein—General Manager, Formaggio Kendall Kitchen

• CIC Cambridge is looking for mentors and partners for their first-ever bootcamp focused on high potential early stage Japanese life science / healthcare startups.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  A new Broad Institute study has found key differences between human and lab animal brains, which could help scientists improve studies on neuropsychiatric diseases. 

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Just-A-Start's Executive Director, Carl Nagy-Koechlin, and Board Chair, Peter Munkenbeck expressed their opposition to the President's Executive Order curtailing anti-racism, diversity, and harassment training.

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  • Transportation

  Transit on the Grand Junction is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a sustainable, equitable, and connected future for the Commonwealth—one we’ll need sooner than later.

• Welcome, Alexandria Real Estate community to Toast Drop!

  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...

• Welcome, Alexandria Real Estate community to Toast Drop!

  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...

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Vanessa Brown—Chief People Officer, CIC

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  • Culture

  The Graffito Podcast

  Tracy Chang of Pagu explains why she might not open her dining room this winter, Nolan DeCoster from Toast talks about a collaboration with Kendall Square businesses, and Thistle & Leek’s Kate and Trevor Smith explain...

• • COVID-19

  Researchers at MIT and Broad Institute have been working on a CRISPR-based diagnostic that can produce COVID-19 test results in 30 minutes to an hour.

• • Technology

  Google was the first major company to become carbon neutral, and this past decade they've achieved 100% renewable energy. Looking ahead to the next decade, they aim to be the first company to operate carbon-free by 2030.

• • Biopharma

  Johnson & Johnson entered its final stage of clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine. What differentiates their vaccine candidate from others is that it does not need to be frozen and may require just one injection.

• Pre-Register for Inclusion Drives Innovation

• This summer, Cambridge Savings Bank and DivcoWest each donated $25,000 to the Summer Empowerment Program for Cambridge youth.

• Philips has been recognized by Forbes as the 11th best place to work in Massachusetts according to employees.

• The Board of Directors of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. has announced that William LaPlante is their new President and Chief Executive Officer.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Amgen has launched its 2020 LabCentral Golden Ticket competition!

• Welcome, Alexandria Real Estate community to Toast Drop!

  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...

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Biogen announced that they are investing $250 million in a 20-year initiative to accelerate action on the greatest challenges of our time: climate change, public health, and equity.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Tarikh Campbell, Diversity & Inclusion Business Program Manager, Microsoft

• • Biopharma
  • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Nine CEOs signed a pledge outlining a united commitment to sustain the integrity of the scientific process as they work toward potential regulatory filings and approvals of the first COVID-19 vaccines.

• • Biopharma
  • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Bayer has entered a collaboration agreement with Recursion Pharmaceuticals to strengthen AI-guided drug discovery and advance new treatments for fibrotic diseases of the lung, kidney, heart, and more.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences
  • Coworking

  There's been an increase of interest in the biotech space since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. LabCentral is experiencing this first hand – See what Johannes Fruehauf, founder and president, of LabCentral has to say about this industry's growth.

• • COVID-19

  Pfizer's CEO, Albert Bourla said there's a chance that a COVID-19 vaccine could be distributed to the American public by the end of this October.

• • COVID-19

  The Power of Proximity Persists — even through a Pandemic

  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...

• • Restaurants + Bars

  Steve "Nookie" Postal made the decision to have Commonwealth go into hibernation starting September 20.

• Johnson & Johnson Innovation has put together a medical countermeasure innovation collaboration called Blue Knight.

• • COVID-19

  Since March, Broad Institute's Genomics team has processed over 1.2 million COVID-19 tests for nursing homes, hospitals, and higher education.

• Welcome, all Synlogic employees to Toast Drop!

  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...

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Chef Andy Husbands, owner, Smoke Shop BBQ

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Noelani Gabriel, Director of Family and Community Engagement at Community Charter School of Cambridge

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Hratch Adourian, owner, Kendall Kitchen

• Welcome, all Seqiurs employees to Toast Drop!

  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

  MIT is entering their next phase of campus reopening and are making sure they ramp up their testing simultaneously.

• • COVID-19

  Moderna has found that its experimental COVID-19 vaccine shows promising results for older adults who are at higher risk of hospitalization and death.

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Cambridge Business Association Turns Learning Into Action with New Program on Anti-Racism

• • COVID-19
  • Culture

  The Future of Working with Limited Childcare

  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...

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  Meet Andrea Windhausen, Community Manager, BioMed Realty

• In order to provide increased voting options in response to COVID-19, early voting for the State Primary Election on September 1st will be available to all voters Aug. 22-28, 2020.

• Bench International, a leading global executive search firm, announced that it will be opening a new hub located in Kendall Square.

• Last week, Bristol Myers Squibb announced that they plan to lease 360,000 square feet of commercial space in one of Cambridge Crossing's new buildings.

• Tango Therapeutics has expanded its collaboration with Gilead Sciences to develop a new generation of targeted cancer therapies.

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  Meet Pamela Greenley, Environment, Health & Safety Office Director, at Draper

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  • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Meet Kent Kunkel, Vice President/ General Manager Turner Construction

• Verve Therapeutics collaborated with Broad Institute to create a process for COVID-19 surveillance testing. This is another example of Kendall companies collaborating to create smart solutions to our greatest challenges, like working from home.

• The antibodies that help the human body fight against COVID-19 may be able to help others. Find out if you qualify to donate plasma today.

• LabCentral companies raise $1.1 billion since going virtual in mid-March.

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  • Restaurants + Bars

  Meet Nicole Liu, Founder of VESTER Cafe

• Welcome, all Draper employees to Toast Drop!

  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...

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Kendall Square Association Turns Learning Into Action with New Program on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  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...

• Sanofi secured a $2.1 billion deal with the U.S. government to supply them with 100 million doses of its experimental vaccine.

• Applications for Unpitch BIO 2020 are now open for early-stage biotech entrepreneurs!

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  Inclusion Drives Innovation

  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,...

• MIT List Visual Arts Center continue to grow MIT's Public Art Collection on campus, and even though they are currently closed, you can still visit it all on their Public Art Map virtually.

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  • Culture

  The MIT List Visual Arts Center boasts one of the most active Percent-for-Art programs in the country.

• The Bristol Myers Squibb LabCentral Golden Ticket contest helps emerging biotech companies advance their research, by providing winners with a year of bench space within LabCentral’s incredible facility, along with access to the scientific expertise of BMS scientists. Contest runs through August 10th.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet David Downing, Managing Director, Leasing & Retail Strategy at Graffito.

• Cambridge announces small business recycling program expansion.

• • Transportation

  Business leaders continue to debate the necessity of revenue raising legislation in the Senate's Bond Bill for funding the transportation system for our future economy.

• A "Golden Ticket" opportunity with Lab Central.

  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...

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Harry Gerard, Senior Associate, Operations, LabCentral.

• • COVID-19

  Today, Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine will be entering its most important phase of testing.

  This 30,000-person trial will detect several different signs of efficacy.

• • Transportation

  Transit on the Grand Junction is the future so we must move beyond the infrastructure of our past.

• MIT President, L. Rafael Reif, writes for the New York Times highlighting the importance of international scholars to America's innovation and competitiveness.

  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...

• • COVID-19

  There are 11 coronavirus vaccines to keep our eye on these days, including Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, and more.

• MIT and Harvard filed a lawsuit against the new ICE regulation which would strip visas from foreign students whose courses are entirely online.

  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.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Biogen completes the submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the approval of aducanumab, an investigational treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Jacob Becraft, Co-founder, and CEO of Strand Therapeutics.

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  Get your hard hats ready! Click to check out these exciting construction projects coming soon to Kendall Square.

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Racial justice begins with corporate America righting economic wrongs

  By Shirley Leung Globe Columnist, Updated June 16, 2020

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Duong Huynh, Project Manager at Leggat McCall Properties.

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Karilyn Crockett, an MIT Urban Studies professor, will lead Boston's newly created Office of Equity.

  This Cabinet-level post will bring together five departments devoted to the advancement of women and people of color. Read more here. 

• Cambridge-based Carmine Therapeutics has officially inked a research collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceuticals to develop and commercialize non-viral gene therapies for two rare diseases.

  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.

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  A group of black executives created the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund.

  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...

• Realizing the power of proximity, even while we are apart

  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...

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Eli Feldman, General Manager of Shy Bird.

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  • Retail + Shopping

  Your Local Grocery Store

  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...

• • COVID-19

  Novartis responding to COVID-19

  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...

• • Education + Research Incubators

  The CIC, home to hundreds of Kendall Square startups, has gone touchless.

  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.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  The Pfizer Breakthrough Growth Initiative

  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...

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  • Restaurants + Bars

  After being closed for three months, the best Jewish deli, Mamaleh's Delicatessen, is open again!

  With a great new menu to choose from, you’re now able to order delivery or takeout on Wednesdays through Sundays between 11am – 6pm.

• • New to Kendall

  Check out Biomed Realty's plans for their 16-story office and lab building on Third Street in Kendall!

  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...

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  • Outdoors
  • Restaurants + Bars

  Hungry for more time outside?

  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...

• • Biopharma

  Moderna CEO sees ‘high probability’ of success with Covid-19 vaccine

  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%.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Felicia Jadczak, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of She+ Geeks Out.

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Kendall Together: A Vision for Community Inclusion

  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...

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Jimmy Liang, Founder, CEO, and Chef of JP Fuji Group.

• • COVID-19
  • Restaurants + Bars

  Several Kendall eateries re-open their patios this week

  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.

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  • Coworking
  • New to Kendall

  CIC opens a new location at 245 Main

  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.

• • COVID-19

  Bristol Myers Squibb offers free access to all branded medicine to patients who have lost health insurance due to COVID-19

  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.

• • COVID-19

  Biogen Foundation donates $10 million to provide immediate relief for communities affected by COVID-19

  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.

• • Biotech + Life Sciences

  Pfizer business head details new $500M project for investing in public biotechs

  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.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Lindsay Crockett, Associate Manager, Communications & Design at LabCentral.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Aoife Brennan, M.B., Ch.B., CEO of Synlogic.

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  • Kendall Collective

  Meet Chandra Ramanathan, Global Head, Pharma R&D Open Innovation, Bayer.

• • COVID-19

  Enabling the Future Together

  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...

• • Transportation

  Seeing Red

  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.

• • Transportation

  Funding the Transportation System the Massachusetts Economy Needs

  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...

• • Transportation

  Kendall businesses to try a different kind of experiment — fixing traffic

  The geniuses in Kendall Square created the microwave oven, invented the instant camera, and synthesized penicillin.

• • Transportation

  Boston’s Frustrations With Transit Mount After Derailment

  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.

• • Transportation

  Business Leaders Get Smart on Transportation Funding

  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...

• • Outdoors
  • Placemaking

  50 Teams, 6 Nonprofits, 1 Challenge

  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,...

• • Placemaking

  Collaboratively, vividly, and visibly: Placemaking in Kendall Square

  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...

• • KSA News

  New Power Drives Kendall Square: Learn how at our Annual Meeting

  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...

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion
  • KSA News
  • Transportation

  Grow your network, up your game, change the world in Kendall Square

  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...

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Ceasar McDowell and team to lead the KSA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Learning Community

  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:...

• • KSA News

  Creativity: The First Step to Innovation

  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...

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Dear Mass voters: We have to choose Yes on 3

  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...

• • Transportation

  You Can’t Find the Cure for Cancer While Sitting in Traffic

  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...

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Creating a More Inclusive Future for Kendall Square

  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,...

• When Tech Has a Field Day

  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...

• • Diversity + Equity + Inclusion

  Boston. Racism. Image. Reality.

  By the Spotlight Team