Healthcare Innovation and Emerging Life Science Hubs
In 2002 Los Angeles, all the hype was around Amgen, the world’s largest manufacturer of biologic injectables. Meanwhile, San Francisco and San Diego showcased the benefit of life science hubs in these cities. They clearly had large life science markets, bio-hubs, incubators, innovation centers, and academic research institutions -all working together. These cities show the importance of collaboration, innovation through research. Links between companies, governments and academic institutions are apparent and important.
In the north east partners or competitors are throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts -Boston is the greatest hub for research and innovation. Meanwhile Southeast innovation is anchored by Raleigh, North Carolina and the research triangle park.
Boston, San Fran, San Diego, and Raleigh are the great biotech hubs of the United States today. There is substantial innovation in NYC, Chicago and Seattle anchored by life science and tech giant collaborations. The importance of companies who innovate to improve life expectancy and reduce suffering, is incredible.
Life science innovation centers span the United States. Florida is a healthy place to do business and research that results in innovation. Here are two examples of Florida burgeoning life science campuses:
First, The University of South Florida has accepted an invitation to join some of the country's leading research institutions in the Association of American Universities (AAU). Membership in the esteemed group is by invitation only. The AAU, which was founded in 1900, has only 71 members. The ability of this university to produce biomedical engineers influences the presence of top medical device companies here.
Second, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute broke ground in Speros, Florida, Pasco County. Here is a drone video of the ground break. The 775-acre campus will be the heart of groundbreaking research, innovative partnerships, and mindful healthcare in central Florida. Moffitt currently resides on USF campus with close proximity to AdventHealth, Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital, and has a long standing relationship with Tampa General Hospital.
Florida is excited about medicine, in particular Cell & Gene Therapy. Once again, we find ourselves exactly where we are supposed to be here in Florida and very happy about it!
Here is a list of national innovation hubs:
MD Anderson Cancer Center — Innovation Center Houston, Texas Jacksonville, Florida
Medtronic — Innovation Lab, Global, 37 US Cities, Jacksonville and Miami, Florida
Mayo Clinic — Center For Innovation (CFI), Jacksonville, FL and Rochester MN
OPTUM and The Mayo Clinic — OPTUMLABS Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Novartis & Microsoft — AI Innovation Lab
Alphabet (Google) — Verily Life Sciences South San Francisco, California
American Medical Association (AMA) — Health2047, San Francisco, CA
Pfizer — Centers For Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) Cambridge, MA San Francisco, CA La Jolla, CA New York, NY
VSP Global — Global Innovation Center, Sacramento, CA
Johnson & Johnson — Johnson & Johnson Innovation (aka JLABS) China (Shanghai), Belgium, England (London), Canada (Toronto), US; California-San Fran (3), San Diego (1), Houston, Texas-Houston, DC-Washington, Pennsylvania-Philadelphia, New Jersey-New Brunswick, New York-NYC, Massachusetts-Cambridge,
ABBVIE — ABBVIE Innovation Center Champaign, Illinois
Cardinal Health — FUSE Dublin, Ohio
Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI) Cleveland, Ohio
Merck — Center for Observational & Real-World Evidence (CORE) West Point, Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — UPMC Enterprises Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MEDSTAR Health — MEDSTAR Institute for Innovation (MI2) Baltimore, Maryland (Johns Hopkins Affiliated)
Bayer — Innovation Cambridge, Massachusetts, Berlin, Japan, China
Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation And Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts General Hospital — Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTECH) Boston, Massachusetts
AARP — Innovation Labs Washington, DC
GlaxoSmithKline — Innovation Labs Suites Warren, New Jersey
Open Lab — Tres Cantos, Spain
Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst campus, United Kingdom
Mount Sinai Health System – Sinai APPLAB New York, NY
Roche — PRED Innovation Centers Basel, Copenhagen, New York City
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — Innovation Hub (IHUB) New York, New York
New York-Presbyterian — Digital Health: Innovation Center New York, New York
BJC Healthcare & Washington University School Of Medicine — Healthcare Innovation Lab St Louis, Missouri
Astrazeneca — Open Innovation Cambridge, England
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