The New Orleans BioInnovation Center is a technology business incubator created to foster entrepreneurship within the New Orleans bioscience community. Located in downtown New Orleans, our mission is to assist companies commercializing biotechnologies from New Orleans-based universities.

Funded through the LA Department of Economic Development, the company was created as a partnership between the Health Sciences Centers of Louisiana State University and Tulane University. Part of a statewide network (along with the Louisiana Emerging Technologies Center in Baton Rouge, and BioSpace1 in Shreveport), the Center will provide business incubation services and wet lab facilities to start-up and early-stage biotechnology companies.

The cornerstone of our work will be a 65,000 square foot facility currently under development on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans. The building will house life sciences laboratory equipment and office space where young companies can turn research into successful ventures.

A key component of the facility will be a 11,000 sq. ft. FDA compliant clinical manufacturing facility owned and managed by the Louisiana Gene Therapy Research Consortium. The facility will produce cell and gene therapy technologies for clinical trials and will operate under stringent FDA guidelines to meet the scrupulous requirements for producing therapies used in humans.

Site preparation has begun with construction to be completed, and the Center ready for occupancy, in late 2009.