Tallahassee’s Bioscience Transformation
When Tallahassee was named the capital of Florida in 1845, the Florida peninsula was sparsely populated, lined withtowering trees, sweeping wet grasslands and graced by beautiful waters. Its early residents knew nothing about the bioscience industry, cancer-fighting drugs, or the discoveries that would later change the economic development of the area. Nor could they have imagined, more than a century later, the life-saving research of scientists from Florida State University, because their college, then named Seminary West of the Suwannee wasn’t to be established until 1851. more....