John D. Jarrell | Material Science Associates LLC president, BioSci Labs founder
For people who dare to make real their dreams and transform them into things visible, the road to success can be long and the costs both figurative and literal. It’s not just time, sweat, blood and tears that entrepreneurs need, but energy and funds.
And in the case of those looking to attack the planet’s health challenges, there are real physical needs as well, specifically working laboratory space.
Without real support from the federal or state governments, what is our startup community to do? Those of us who love forming companies, and launching needed products and services understand that often we must build what we need ourselves.
With even the most modest goals, our needs are too big to accomplish alone. Instead, it is going to be through community that our dreams are realized, which brings us to BioSci Labs.
I’m fortunate to be leading a team of special women and men at BioSci Labs, the state’s only commercial wet-laboratory incubator and pilot manufacturing facility for medical technology and engineering. Here is the place for inventors from hospitals, universities and the workplace to see their ideas and inventions become real products in the marketplace, meeting the needs of patients and the people of our nation and world.
Ultimately, the fate of startup activities is in the hands of those with vision of things unseen, the passionate inventors, scientists, managers, administrators, angel investors and trusted service professionals. But now as a community, we have a place where we can support, encourage and join with such risk-takers to move forward together.