From xConomy: BASF bread for polymers; Poitras funds for depression roots study

Read Wade Roush on Boston-area boffin doings. New funds at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research [from MIT alumnus James Poitras and wife Patricia] will go to support research into the genetic and environmental roots of depression. Meanwhile, at Harvard, BASF will find research into building polymer structures that could deliver active-ingredient molecules to specific places in the body. Each of the fundings is pegged at $20 million.

This and more at Xconomy.com