Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) has welcomed Inspira Pharmaceuticals to its Lab Hotel, a facility offering free lab and office accommodation for six months to start-ups.
The Lab Hotel provides start-ups with scientific and business support, access to SBC’s networks, facilities and introductions to investors to help their business grow and develop.
Biotech start-up
Rory McGoldrick, co-founder and CEO of Inspira Pharmaceuticals said: “Being selected for the SBC Lab Hotel has provided Inspira with an incredible springboard to achieve our research goals. As a small biotech start-up, making the transition to running our own dedicated lab facilities and building an in-house team is a daunting challenge.”
As part of its commitment to supporting early-stage start-ups, SBC opened the Lab Hotel in 2020. Its purpose is to support start-ups working in advanced therapeutics and drug discovery to develop their innovations and secure their next round of funding.
Located in the UK Life Science’s golden triangle, the Lab Hotel offers state-of-the art facilities and unique infrastructure to start-ups, including access to two spaces in a laboratory which contains both molecular biology and mammalian tissue culture equipment. Being part of the Lab Hotel provides young companies with access to mentoring and introductions to the right investors for their stage of their development.
Sally Ann Forsyth, CEO at SBC, said, “Providing support for the translation and commercialisation of early-stage research is part of SBC’s vision. We are delighted to welcome Inspira to the Lab Hotel which gives young life sciences companies access to the facilities and support they need to take their innovative ideas to the next stage.”
The Lab Hotel can accommodate up to four start-up companies for six months at any one time. Having benefitted from the Lab Hotel, many existing occupiers have expanded into larger lab and office space within SBC.
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For further information on SBC’s lab hotel visit https://www.stevenagecatalyst.com/accelerate/lab-hotel/
