{"id":15831,"date":"2019-11-05T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:46:44","slug":"bbbn-research-biotech-pharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/2019\/11\/05\/bbbn-research-biotech-pharma\/","title":{"rendered":"BBBN: Research, Biotech, and Pharma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On October 25, the Bates Boston Business Network hosted a panel discussion at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston to learn from faculty and alumni about their innovative research and work launching biotech and pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the panel, the Alumni Council presented two awards to outstanding and committed alums: <strong>Meredith Traquina \u201913<\/strong> received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/recognition\/\"><strong>Distinguished Young Alumni Award<\/strong><\/a>, and&nbsp;<strong>Katie Burke \u2019<\/strong><strong>03<\/strong> received the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/recognition\/\">Bruce Stangle Award for Distinguished Service<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/11\/Bates099-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Alumni at a BBBN Event. \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/11\/Bates080-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Alumni receiving an award at a BBBN event. \"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button large-button large-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/all-events\/\">Upcoming Events<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 25, the Bates Boston Business Network hosted a panel discussion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6,20],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery","tag-boston-bates-business-network","tag-photo-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41278,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions\/41278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}