The Mass. Life Sciences Center is putting on another push to help place summer interns at life science companies in the Commonwealth, even offering salary reimbursement as sweeteners to companies with fewer than 100 employees.
The quasi-public agency said it placed slightly more than 100 interns last year at 59 life science companies across the Bay State. The goal for 2010 is to increase the number of placements to 150.
In order to do so, the center is increasing the internship period from eight weeks to 12 and offering to reimburse companies with 100 or fewer employees for salaries of up to $15 per hour. The stipend subsidies are available on a first-come, first-serve basis until the center has exhausted the funds allocated to the program by its board of directors, according to the agency’s website.
The center recently doled out $25 million worth of tax incentives to 28 life science companies in Massachusetts, aimed at fostering the creation of 918 new jobs here.