Join the Life Science Cluster in Roanoke

Roanoke’s life science ecosystem supports bench-to-bedside translation innovation. Here, you’ll find dedicated partners in higher education, government, health care, technology, and economic development working tirelessly to help you get started, head to market, and scale up.

When it comes to the game of innovation, the Roanoke Region of Virginia has a winning strategy. In our game plan – business, government, and education work together seamlessly to build workforce and drive innovation.

Cities across the nation are building innovation corridors, and like our region’s burgeoning biotech hub, many have excellent startup support, new infrastructure projects coming online each year, coworking spaces, and accelerators that create an environment for collaborative research.

• LOCATION: In our innovation corridor you can create the latest technology, manufacture it here, and distribute it from here. We’re located within a day’s drive of 2/3 of the U.S. population.
• LAB SPACE & PAD READY SITES: Take your pick from several municipally owned, fully prepared, and strategically located sites ready to make any innovation-based company thrive. We can connect you with the office property, industrial building, and flexible real estate solution that fits your project’s requirements. See all real estate.

• VIBRANT ECOSYSTEM: With over $560 million in research spending at Virginia Tech and the Fralin Biomedical Institute at VTC, our region has created an incubator for life science, innovation technology, and advanced manufacturing. Our regional support system assists technology startups with capital requirements creating an ecosystem for start-ups to thrive, and provides accelerators for technology-based businesses.
• LIVABILITY: Our scenic mountain metro is a place where people want to live. Trails, rivers, and greenways marble our urban core, so after work you can be mountain biking in minutes, a couple more minutes and you’re at one of 16 breweries, minutes more and you’re home. No commute, no traffic, no urban sprawl.