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The Baton Rouge Health-Tech Catalyst, a regional health and life science innovation cluster initiative led by the Baton Rouge Health District and funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Build to Scale Program, recently awarded $60,000 in pilot funding to three highly innovative and competitive projects designed to advance research and innovation across area health institutions.

The Baton Rouge Health District (BRHD) recently secured over $500,000 in anticipated workforce development funding from the Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation, Health District member institutions (including local hospitals and health affiliated organizations), and the federal Economic Development Administration to launch a new healthcare-focused workforce strategy aimed at addressing the expanding workforce talent gap in healthcare.

Baton Rouge Health District Awards Three Projects at the Inaugural Launchpad Innovation Pilot Awards
The Baton Rouge Health-Tech Catalyst, a Baton Rouge
Health District project funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Office
of Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Build to Scale Program, held its inaugural Launchpad
Innovation Pilot Awards on Tuesday, May 3 at the C. B. Pennington Jr. Conference Center at
Pennington Biomedical Research Center.