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| title | Building with Biology |
| subtitle | Driving the Bioindustrial Manufacturing Revolution in Central Massachusetts |
| description | A shared bioindustrial manufacturing facility at Gateway Park in Worcester — pilot-scale fermentation, automated strain engineering, and bioprocess development under one roof. |
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The BioHub is a shared bioindustrial manufacturing facility at Gateway Park in Worcester, built so early-stage companies can run pilot-scale fermentations, engineer microbial hosts, and develop new bioprocesses under one roof — without queuing for slots at an offshore CMO or building the infrastructure themselves. Led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives and funded by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the BioHub exists to compress the time, cost, and risk between a promising strain and a manufacturable product.
Biomanufacturing professionals trained at WPI's BETC since 2013 — the foundation we're building on.
Pilot-scale fermentation from 1L to 150L with integrated downstream operations and AI-driven process control.
Automated design-build-test-learn workflows in the BioFoundry — high-throughput strain construction, screening, and AI-driven optimization.
Hands-on, competency-based curricula with AR/VR-enabled instruction, in development with regional educators.