NEOMED REDIzone read to go

ROOTSTOWN — Northeast Ohio Medical University has dedicated the Timken Foundation of Canton Innovation Corridor ­— home to the Research, Entrepreneurship, Discovery and Innovation Zone, the latest example of the university’s ongoing public-private partnership efforts.

The REDizone, as it’s called, is an incubator for companies to work with university scientists to develop their ideas.

Three companies lease space within the corridor and there’s room for up to 10.

Dr. Jay Gershen, NEOMED president, said Monday the 1,500 physicians working in Ohio represent about $1.5 billion in economic activity. The amount in annual research dollars in addition to that.

Crystal Diagnostics is one of the companies in the REDizone.

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