Pennsylvania officials visit State College to tour cancer research facility
CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Rick Siger and other local representatives got the chance to tour Atlas Biotech, which looks to help those battling cancer.
Atlas Biotech was founded in 2023 by Josh Reynolds, a PhD student at Penn State. Reynolds was a student at Texas A&M University before moving to Penn State. While in Texas, his grandfather passed away from cancer.
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'The idea is to really just design better drugs for cancer patients. Right now, we're focusing on drug resistance, so we're looking at leukemia specifically. Chronic myeloid leukemia is the main case we study here,' Reynolds said. 'My grandfather passed away when I was in school there. I had to watch that process of him going through different rounds of therapies and then eventually succumbing to the disease. And that's one of the impacts a lot of people across the world.'
For the Department of Community and Economic Development, innovation, businesses, and entrepreneurs help grow Pennsylvania's economy as well as try to make everyone healthier.
'Like I said a minute ago, this is about economic growth, It's about entrepreneurs succeeding. And in the case of life sciences in particular, and companies like Atlas, it's about life-saving technologies that can be produced and deployed right here in Pennsylvania,' Siger said.
State Representatives Scott Conklin and Paul Takac joined Siger on the tour. Takac says that Innovations like this is going to make Pennsylvanians healthier and more prosperous in the future. Conklin says Centre County is a leader in this industry, and he is happy to see companies start and grow while staying in the area.
'Whether it's in Penns Valley or Phillipsburg or State College, this is what makes Center County home. And I really feel sorry when I heard the secretary talking about places around the state that they have to be second best to us. But that's what it's about, we thrive to be number one because we believe in the people that are here,' Conklin said.
Siger mentioned that Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing a $50 million investment in innovation in the proposed budget.
'We have the opportunity right now with the governor's proposed budget to double down on innovation, with the proposed investment of $20 million in an innovation fund and $30 million focused on life sciences innovation, for a total of $50 million,' Siger said.
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