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University of Illinois Research Park Opens LabWorks with First Tenant 

The University of Illinois Research Park is now home to a new center for growth-stage life sciences startups. The University held a celebration and ribbon cutting earlier this month, marking the opening of LabWorks and its first tenant, a graduate from the EnterpriseWorks incubator. Read more. 

Case Western Reserve University Launches New Business Incubator

Case Western Reserve University has redeveloped the former BioEnterprise Inc. building in Cleveland's University Circle into a new startup incubator (part of the Cleveland Innovation District) for early-stage businesses in the biotech, health tech and engineering fields. Read more.

Agilent Technologies and UC San Diego Join to Form Center in Cellular Intelligence

Agilent Technologies, a company in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, and UC San Diego (an AURP Member) have announced an innovative scientific collaboration to establish the Agilent Center of Excellence in Cellular Intelligence. Read more.

Company at RFU Incubator Developing Potential Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer Treatments

BLR Bio, a biotech company in Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science’s Helix 51 Bioscience Incubator, has released new data on its novel cancer therapy, pointing to a promising strategy to boost the effectiveness of existing drugs in pancreatic cancer and other solid-tumor cancers. Read more.

Clark & Enersen's Kate Hier Receives AIA's Young Architects Award 2024

Kate Hier, AIA, EDAC, WELL AP (architect with Clark & Enersen and AURP Board member) has been named a recipient of the AIA Young Architects Award 2024. Kate is one of 30 individuals honored with this prestigious award, selected by a six-member jury consisting of distinguished AIA members from across the country. Read more.

USF Research Park's Cori Dreger Receives AURP's AURP Rising Star Award

Cori Dreger, Project Manager with USF Research Park, received (at AURP's 2024 Spring Training) the "AURP Rising Star: A New Generation of Innovation Leadership" award. Cori is recognized as a relationship builder with a reputation of trust, exuding a customer service culture with USF Research Park's internal team and external clients. Read more.

City of Boston Secures Federal Funding for Allston I-90 Project

The City of Boston has secured $335 million in federal funding for its Allston’s I-90 project, which aims to transform Allston by rebuilding a deficient section of I-90 to open up new land for development, including for Harvard's Enterprise Research Campus. Read more.

UMBC's bwtech Research & Technology Park Profiled in Site Selection magazine for Its Soft Landing Program

bwtech Research & Technology Park at UMBC is featured in the March edition of Site Selection magazine with a focus on the Maryland Global Gateway Soft Landing Program. Site Selection's article spotlights how bwtech currently hosts six companies from abroad. Read more.

GA Tech Research Team Wins $4.2 Million Federal Grant to Guard Power Grid from Cyber Threats 

A team of researchers with Georgia Tech has received a $4.2M grant from the U.S. DoE to advance development of a new AI-based method to automatically find and stop threats to renewable energy and local generators across the nation’s power grid. Read more.

South Duvall Announces Completion of Major New Manufacturing Facility in Maryland

South Duvall, a commercial real estate investor focusing on value-add properties and select stabilized properties (and AURP Member), announced the completion of Hughes' new manufacturing facility in Germantown, MD. Read more.

Research Triangle Foundation of NC Makes Two Key Staff Moves

Research Triangle Foundation of NC (RTF) has promoted Linda Hall to EVP and COO for Research Triangle Park (RTP) and Kelly Propst, a PR professional with more than 18 years of experience, has joined RTF as VP of Marketing and Communications for RTP. Read more.

TUFF Expands Investment in Pittsburgh’s Research Community

The University Financing Foundation, Inc. (TUFF) announced its second investment in Pittsburgh via acquisition of a 90,000 square foot, five story wet lab facility anchored by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh’s Drug Discovery Institute. Read more.