BCBB takes over Portico Brewing courtesy of MTP Connect

Thursday, June 12, 2025 6pm-8pm

On June 12th at 6pm, join your BCBB friends for beers and company at Portico Brewing in Somerville, with food and drink kindly provided by MTP Connect!

Located in the new biotech district in Brickbottom, Portico is walking distance from the Green Line stop at Union Square. There is street parking and $10 parking at 5pm in building garage.

All computational biologists and bioinformaticians are welcome regardless of skill level, from lifelong hardcore professionals and academics to people who are starting to think about learning just enough programming to make science go faster. See old friends, mentors, students, and make new connections while sharing tales of compbio triumph and woe.

This social event will be a little different as MTP Connect is bring along visiting delegation of folks in the biotech and medical sector from Australia to join us at Portico. They are visiting the Boston biotech scene as well as the BIO conference, so come along say g'day, and welcome them to Boston.

Look for the BCBB sign!

About MTP Connect (www.mtpconnect.org.au)

MTPConnect is Australia's Life Sciences Innovation Accelerator – an independent, not-for-profit organisation established by the Australian Government to champion the continuing growth of Australia's vibrant medical products sector.

MTPConnect works with start-ups, SMEs and researchers to accelerate the commercialisation of cutting-edge medical technologies, biotechnologies and pharmaceutical innovations; taking cutting-edge research from bench to bedside.

We achieve these outcomes by improving industry collaboration and commercialisation, providing accelerator funding and support for cutting-edge innovations, boosting workforce development, optimising the regulatory and policy environment and creating links to international markets.

Across MTPConnect's accelerator and workforce programs, A$152 million has been injected into the sector, securing more than A$1.3 billion in additional industry contributions and external investment. MTPConnect's work for the last nine years has seen 1,696 new technologies invented or progressed, 37 new products launched, 2,447 new jobs created and over 740,000 patients treated.