Urban Innovation Center
The Urban Innovation Center at PNDRI provides key resources that support internal Institute researchers as well as external start-ups in their efforts to translate scientific discoveries in the lab into business successes in the market—including new companies or commercial arrangements from intellectual property, licenses, research discoveries and patents.
The Center promotes a mutually beneficial relationship that reinforces PNDRI’s intramural diabetes R&D capacity while providing innovative start-ups access to shared resources that would not otherwise be available. In fact, research shows that entrepreneurs who participate in an incubator program have a higher success rate, on average, than those who do not, with an 87 percent survival rate.
Shared Resources
The Urban Innovation Center at PNDRI provides start-up companies the following benefits:
- Sophisticated lab equipment and technology (cost-prohibitive to most start-ups)
- Key support staff, information technology and other administrative services
- Like-minded scientific colleagues
- Professional links to strategic biotech and life science organizations
Where Innovation Thrives
PNDRI has been housing young biotechnology and life science organizations for decades. In its role as incubator, PNDRI has five tenants that include business as well as academic institutions:
- Impel NeuroPharma: Developed a unique nasal device that allows the delivery of pharmaceuticals to the brain
- Seattle University: University faculty utilize PNDRI lab space, offices and equipment, and are able to provide superb hands-on research experiences for students
- PharmaIn: This pharmaceutical R&D company provides advanced therapeutic and imaging drug delivery solutions
- Plant Health Care: Provides naturally based products for agriculture, commercial landscaping and land reclamation
- Pacific Bioalliances: Details to come soon
- Pluri-Biosciences: Details to come soon
To learn more about the Urban Innovation Center at PNDRI, please contact us.