500 LinkedIn Follower Milestone!

26th January 2022 by Robert Elkington

A year on since the start of BioTrib we have now completed recruitment of all 15 Early Stage Reseachers and achieved a milestone 500 followers on LinkedIn!

Thanks to everyone in the BioTrib community!

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