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    Michigan Tech Researcher Invited to Share Biotech Expertise with National Policymakers

    Michigan Technological University was among a select group of universities invited by members of the U.S. House of Representatives to present at a joint hearing called "Pursuing the Golden Age of Innovation: Strategic Priorities in Biotechnology." Michigan Technological University was well represented on Capitol Hill earlier this month. On Thursday, June 5, the House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Energy invited four expert scientists, engineers and educators to provide testimony for the committee to better understand the strengths and threats to American biotechnological research and the biotech sector of the economy. These experts included Stephen Techtmann, associate professor of biology at Michigan Tech and associate director of the University's Great Lakes Research Center.

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