Tufts University has opened a 15,000 square-foot biotech incubator managed by BioLabs with enough room for 100 scientists and entrepreneurs.
Tufts University launched a biotech incubator managed by BioLabs called Tufts Launchpad BioLabs on Tuesday to support life sciences startups in the Boston area.
The 15,000 square foot complex is situated within Tufts’ health sciences campus in downtown Boston, hosting 50 ready-made lab benches as well as larger suites, private offices, co-working facilities and event space.
The space will offer Tufts services including sequencing, peptide synthesis, confocal microscopy and apparatus for pre-clinical research.
Tufts Launchpad BioLabs accepts companies regardless of whether they have an affiliation with the university. It has enough working space for approximately 100 scientists and entrepreneurs.
The complex already has 19 resident startups which include developers of therapies for neurodegenerative and severe fibrotic diseases, a diagnostics tool for discovering biomarkers and personalised wound care.
Companies based at the facility also gain access to BioLabs’ sponsors as well as state-wide industry advocate Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. Residents will have the opportunity to attend tailored seminars, workshops and social events.
The Tufts complex joins BioLabs-affiliated initiatives started by US institutions such as Princeton University, which held an official ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 31,000 square foot Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs complex on May 17.
Simin Nikbin Maeydani, vice-provost for research at Tufts University, said: “Tufts researchers are pursuing solutions to problems in every discipline.
“At the same time, entrepreneurs combine a vision to develop new products with the drive to push past challenges in order to be successful.”