There's a science to this: NEOBio tries to bring grassroots organization to the bioscience community.(Five Questions)(Northeast Ohio's bioscience community)(Interview)

For better or worse, NEOBio has been Steve Goldberg's labor of love.

But the loss of the Edison BioTechnology Center (which dissolved into BioEnteprise and Columbus-based Omeris Inc. two years ago) and its networking and advocacy functions created a void for this region's diverse and unorganized bioscience community.

"We're absolutely grassroots," says the group's acting director. "It started as a conversation. It started by recognizing a vacuum or gap [in Northeast Ohio's bioscience community] and it started by asking what should we do about it. We looked to see if there was a solution out there, and there wasn't."

Goldberg, who owns EvoTech LLC, …