The Massachusetts Paradox
Massachusetts built the world’s biotech capital. Over 1,000 companies. 117,000 jobs. $23 billion in wages. Historic breakthroughs that cure diseases, save lives, and give patients and their families hope.
Yet, election after election, MA consistently supports policymakers who treat our greatest asset like a threat. With every short-sighted policy, they dismantle the system saving patients and sustaining our state economy.
This is the MA Paradox: the state that defines the future of medicine is now tearing it down, one policy at a time, and calling it progress.
Imagine what happens if this continues:
Labs shuttering. Researchers leaving. Patients lost to diseases that could have been cured here.
If we don’t act now to protect the world’s biotech headquarters, we risk destroying two things we can’t afford to lose: the engine of our economy and the promise of better lives for patients everywhere.
We urgently ask you to read about the MA Paradox and its origins here.
Introducing the MA‑rketing Coalition
The campaign to stop the paradox starts now.
The MA-rketing Coalition is the organized response—an NPLB-led alliance of biotech startups, established pharma, venture investors, research universities, patient advocates, and strategic communications partners who refuse to let MA self-destruct in silence.
We believe character-driven storytelling at scale can inspire change: the scientists racing against time, the entrepreneurs and investors betting everything on long-shot cures, the patients alive because MA takes risks other places won't. We work to change the narrative before we lose the industry that could save us.
Join the coalition. Protect the ecosystem. Let's make MA fall back in love with a uniquely MA industry that helps make our state amazing and all the world healthier.
We built the world’s biotech capital. Let’s not be the generation that gave it away.
This work will take all of us.
Read and sign our letter urging large biopharma to join the movement.
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Ongoing ‘Experiments’
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