WISCONSIN — On Monday, President Joe Biden announced the creation of 31 tech hubs across the United States. That includes the formation of Wisconsin-based Biohealth Tech Hub.

Lisa Johnson, the CEO of BioForward Wisconsin — the group tasked with leading it — gave some insight into how the new initiative could work.

“We now are going to go after a Phase II designation,” Johnson said. “The first designation with Phase I did not give us any funding, though we did get a planning grant that will give us $350,000 that we’re going to put to some workforce development planning.”

If all goes according to plan for the new Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub, various groups in the Badger State could work together to propel the state’s leadership forward when it comes to how personalized medicine is approached nationwide.

“They put these tech hubs in place because they’re saying, ‘We can’t just have ‘the coasts’ with all the investments,”" Johnson said. “We have to be making investments throughout the country and innovation doesn’t just happen on ‘the coasts,’ it happens everywhere.”

Watch the full interview above.