BioME members are eligible for significant cost-savings through the BioME Group Purchasing Program, which provides discounts and benefits with various providers, usually reserved only for large national accounts. Humboldt Moving & Storage, a United Van Lines agent, is one such participating vendor, offering discounted services and benefits. Humboldt is a family owned business that offers professional moving services for residential and corporate accounts locally, domestically and internationally. With over 110 years of experience, Humboldt has unique expertise in serving the biotech [...]

Summer is approaching, and what's more fun than relaxing on the beach? Well, if you're like us, you're probably looking for more ways to get involved in the bioscience community. If you are a high school student, undergraduate, or recent college graduate, we have some exciting opportunities for you, including internships. BioME has ranked some of our favorite opportunities below. Check it out. 6)IDEXX-Internship-Industrial Engineering Location: Westbrook, ME, USA Length: May-August Cost: IDEXX pays you. Description: applying Lean Industrial engineering [...]

An excellent opportunity to learn some science this summer! As a follow up to ME Bioscience Day 2017, BIOME has decided to fund 2 scholarships (1 boy and 1 girl) in the form of 1-week-long summer science camps at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone. Students need to be 12-14 and attend one of the schools that participated in ME Bioscience Day 2017 on Nov 8. The camps run between July 1 and Aug 4 and any week [...]

BioME’s Strategic Session: New Mission and Vision In the past few years, our organization has grown bigger, stronger and has become involved with increasingly more and more diverse activities. With all these positive changes, we felt that BioME should come up with a clear strategy for the years to come. The first step involved putting together a member survey which we sent out at the end of 2017. Many of you responded and the results helped us tremendously with deciding [...]

The Maine Medical Center Research Institute, located in Scarborough, has been conducting basic and translational research for over 25 years. Founded in 1991 as a division of Maine Medical Center, the research institute established its current location in 2001 and nearly

An innovative business, as it grows and develops, periodically must take a step back, look at the big picture, and decide where the organization must pivot to meet future demand.  This is even more true for bioscience companies where the pace of discovery and potential only seems to be accelerating year by year. This year, we here at the Bioscience Association of Maine took a broad look at where we have been and where we are headed.  More importantly, we [...]