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Improving the Lab-to-Market Pipeline at UNC

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Photo: A woman wearing a white lab coat, glasses, black gloves, and a ponytail stands at a counter in a laboratory. She is using a large touch screen on a black device seated next to a metal cylinder covered in guages, switches, and tubes. Another woman in a white lab coat works in the background.

North Carolina’s abundance of research universities and the Research Triangle Park has made it a powerhouse in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Regional participation in the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), builds upon that asset, bringing jobs to the area and strengthening the research-to-market pipeline.