{"id":88,"date":"2006-11-09T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T21:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=88"},"modified":"2008-08-05T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:15:05","slug":"trying-to-grow-life-sciences-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Trying to grow life-sciences in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/business\/content\/local_news\/epaper\/2006\/11\/09\/c1a_MAX_PLANCK_1109.html\">Florida Courting Science Powerhouse<\/a><span class=\"body\"> <\/span><span class=\"body\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The governor&#8217;s office and Scripps Florida are courting the Max Planck Society, Germany&#8217;s leading research institution, to expand to Florida and create a life-science campus along with Scripps, a spokesman for the society confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions began a year ago among Gov. Jeb Bush, Scripps President Richard Lerner and Peter Gruss, president of the Max Planck Society, about bringing one of Europe&#8217;s premier science organizations to South Florida. Those discussions will continue next week in Palm Beach, society spokesman Bernd Wirsing said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Courting Science Powerhouse The governor&#8217;s office and Scripps Florida are courting the Max Planck Society, Germany&#8217;s leading research institution, to expand to Florida and create a life-science campus along with Scripps, a spokesman for the society confirmed. Discussions began &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=88\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-1q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=819","url_meta":{"origin":88,"position":0},"title":"Scripps Florida discussion series","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"These look like very interesting talks that I would love to attend if I was in the area. 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