Bay Area Biotech Incubator Opens Extensive New Lab Facility, Paving Way for Entrepreneurs and Their Innovation

Innovation and discovery just got easier for life science entrepreneurs as MBC BioLabs announces the opening of a 30,000 square foot building of incubator lab space in San Carlos, Calif. Built specifically as a life-science incubator space over the past 18 months, the new facility brings cutting-edge lab equipment, infrastructure and services to innovators and entrepreneurs so they can begin their discovery work virtually immediately.  This is MBC BioLabs' third campus and its second in San Carlos.  Its first lab opened in San Francisco in 2013.  This "rent a bench" concept is critically important in speeding discovery and empowering entrepreneurial scientists to be fast, frugal and focused. "In the first 6 years the companies in our labs have brought 53 programs to the clinic, produced 13 approved diagnostics, and raised over $4.5 billion – this is just the sort of innovation we need to meet today's critical healthcare needs," said Douglas Crawford, general manager of MBC BioLabs. Crawford expects to have 19 companies in the new lab immediately and a total of about 50 startups operational in just a few months, performing experiments and aiming to prove concepts and bring new advances to the world.