The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse has opened a new campus-like headquarters across the river on the South Side at the River Park Commons Business Center with a more fluid space to continuing growing the region’s life sciences industry.
The new campus offers 21,500 square-feet and brings the greenhouse together on one floor, offering 50% of the total space for the development of incubator companies, says John Manzetti, President and CEO.
It also provides PLSG with four to six fully operational wet-labs nearby, which will assist companies in bringing their research from concept to commercialization. Two venture capital firms have offices on the campus, Novitas and Corridor Venture Partners.
Also joining the campus with office space is Cognition Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson and Merck as well as executives-in-residence Dave Malwhinney, Steve Bollinger and Don Taylor, executive associate.
“The demand for this campus environment is significant as an increasing number of new biotechnology companies are being launched throughout the nation, and geographic clusters to house these new, start-up companies are highly competitive, ” says Manzetti. “The PLSG campus is a concentrated, efficient, cost-effective space for growing the region’s life sciences industry.”
In other life sciences news, Blue Belt technologies, a Pittsburgh startup that has developed a robotic surgical tool, is preparing to launch in Europe. The Carnegie Mellon spinout is working on new technologies that will provide better tools for minimally-invasive surgeries.
Source: Lynn Brusco, John Manzetti, PLSG
Writer: Deb Smit
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