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A Vibrant Life Science Community
Cooperation and collaboration characterize the life science community in the Innovation Crescent. For example:
- A joint venture between two top universities – Georgia Tech and Emory – has resulted in the creation of the #2 ranked bioengineering program in the nation.
- A unique public and private partnership, the Georgia Research Alliance, supports life sciences and technology, investing more than $350 million to recruit eminent scholars and bringing new dimensions to the state's research environment.
This vibrant life science community is supported by the presence of leading international companies and a steady influx of new businesses and entrepreneurs. Emphasis on commercialization at research institutions is spurring the growth of start-up companies and licensing.
The result? In just three years, Georgia leaped to 7th place from 11th in the total number of life science companies in the country, according to an annual Ernst & Young study. The state has seen a 140 percent growth in the life science industry since 1993.
Leading Life Science Companies in the Innovation Crescent
Life Science Resources in the Innovation Crescent
Notable Institutions
Life science organizations ranging from the nationally recognized Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) and American Cancer Society to the Yerkes Primate Center.
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Academic Institutions
Universities, research institutions and technology transfer offices.
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Notable Institutions in the Innovation Crescent
Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)
ATDC at Georgia Tech is a nationally recognized science and technology incubator. Companies associated with the ATDC have raised more than $1 billion in venture capital since 1999. ATDC's Biosciences Center has 22,000 square feet of wet-lab and office space. www.atdc.org
The American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization headquartered in Atlanta. www.cancer.org
Arthritis Foundation
The Arthritis Foundation is the only national not-for-profit organization that supports the more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions, and is headquartered in Atlanta. www.arthritis.org
BioEnergy Science Center
This initiative of the Department of Energy seeks advances in biofuels through collaboration and research. Georgia facilities include the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Tech and the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia. www.bioenergycenter.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is headquartered in Atlanta and is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the U.S. The CDC employs more than 14,000 employees in 40 countries and in 170 occupations. www.cdc.gov
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center is one of the largest academic neuroscience research centers in the world with more than 100 principal investigators. www.cbn-atl.org
Emtech Bio
Emtech Bio, a joint project of Emory University and Georgia Tech, has 7,000 square feet of office and laboratory space, and provides business support programs for start-up and early-stage bioscience companies. www.emtechbio.com
Georgia Bio
Georgia Bio is a non-profit, membership-based organization that promotes the interests and growth of the life sciences and related industries. The organization is affiliated with BIO. www.gabio.org
Georgia Cancer Coalition
The Georgia Cancer Coalition is an independent, not-for-profit organization that unites government agencies, academic institutions, civic groups, corporations and health care organizations, and is the first of its kind in the nation. www.georgiacancer.org
Georgia Research Alliance
A public/private organization that has invested more than $350 million since 1993 to recruit eminent scholars to Georgia institutions. www.gra.org
Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP)
Georgia's Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP) is the economic development program of the University System of Georgia, helping connect the intellectual resources of Georgia's 35 public colleges and universities to the state's business community in innovative ways. www.icapp.org
Life Sciences Business Development Center, Medical College of Georgia
Located just outside the Crescent in Augusta, Georgia, the Medical College of Georgia houses an innovation center devoted to life sciences consisting of a 12,000-square-foot incubator that includes five wet-lab/clean room/office suites, shared equipment and other resources. www.mcg.edu/incubator
Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA)
SEMDA is a non-profit trade association designed to promote medical device companies in the Southeast, provide a means for those companies and inventors to network and build community, and provide them with resources to grow. www.semda.net
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a strong presence in Athens, including the Eastern field lab for Food Safety and Inspection as well as the Richard B. Russell Research Center, a major research facility of the Agricultural Research Service. www.usda.gov
Yerkes Primate Center
The Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University is an international leader in biomedical and behavioral research. The center houses nearly 3,400 nonhuman primates and more than 5,000 rodents in its two centers. www.yerkes.emory.edu
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Academic Institutions in the Innovation Crescent
Agnes Scott College
Since 1889, Agnes Scott has inspired students to discover new opportunities, challenges and strengths through a liberal arts education in a setting dedicated to women. The college was ranked among the top 10 liberal arts colleges in the south and the #1 women's college in Georgia and the entire southeast by U.S. News & World Report in 2007. www.agnesscott.edu
Clark Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University (CAU), formed in 1988, is a result of the consolidation of two independent historically black institutions - Atlanta University (1865) and Clark College (1869). The University, largest of the 39-member UNCF colleges, is a United Methodist Church-affiliated, comprehensive, private, urban, coeducational, residential institution of higher learning with a predominantly African-American heritage. www.cau.edu
Clayton State University
Clayton State University offers four master's degree programs and over 30 baccalaureate degree programs to its 6,000 enrolled students. The University was ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2008 as having the most diverse student population among comprehensive baccalaureate-level colleges and universities in the southern U.S. www.clayton.edu
Emory University
Emory is home to nine major academic divisions, numerous centers for advanced study, and a host of prestigious affiliated institutions. Emory's internationally known medical school has $312 million in funded health science research and is ranked in the top 20 grant recipients from the National Institute of Health. www.emory.edu
Office of Technology Transfer
Emory University is currently ranked 1st among U.S. universities in commercial licensing revenues. The Office of Technology is charged with protecting and transferring the intellectual property of Emory. www.ott.emory.edu/
Emory Vaccine Center
The Emory Vaccine Center, with over 100 scientists, is one of the world's largest centers focused on new vaccine strategies. The Center is working to eradicate challenge health problems such as AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza and respiratory illnesses. www.vaccines.emory.edu
Georgia Gwinnett College
Located in Lawrenceville, Georgia Gwinnett College is the first new four-year public college created in the Georgia in more than 100 years and the first in the nation in the 21st century. The School of Science and Technology offers two different tracks in a Bachelor of Science in Biology – General Biology and Cell Biology and Biotechnology. www.ggc.usg.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology
One of the nation's top research universities, Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of Atlanta, where more than 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education. Georgia Tech is consistently ranked in U.S. News & World Report's top 10 public universities in the U.S. www.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute
The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute helps companies, entrepreneurs, economic developers and communities improve their competitiveness through the application of science, technology and innovation. www.edtv.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
GTRI is the non-profit applied research arm of Georgia Tech, with approximately 1,200 employees performing or supporting over $100 million in research yearly for more than 200 clients in industry and government. www.gtri.gatech.edu
Georgia Perimeter College
Georgia Perimeter College is among the nation's fastest-growing metropolitan two-year colleges. With more than 21,000 students, GPC is the third-largest institution in the University System of Georgia. The affordable college has five campuses located around Atlanta. www.gpc.edu
Georgia State University (GSU)
Located in downtown Atlanta, this research university has an enrollment of more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students in six colleges and is the second largest university in the state. www.gsu.edu
Georgia State Technology and Commercialization Development Program
This program encourages and assists in the development and protection of intellectual property developed by Georgia State University faculty, staff and students. www.gsu.edu/research/techcommercial_development.html
CollabTech Biotechnology Development Center
CollabTech is a partnership between GSU and the biotechnology industry fostering collaboration between academic faculty and industrial scientists. CollabTech has 8,000 square feet of office and wet-lab space, providing space and facilities for biotech startup companies. www.biology.gsu.edu/industry/industry.html
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University, the third-largest university in the University System of Georgia, is a comprehensive university with expanding undergraduate and graduate programs in Kennesaw, one of metropolitan Atlanta's burgeoning northwest suburban communities. www.kennesaw.edu
Mercer University
Mercer's metro Atlanta campus provides a biomedical specialization within an accredited Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and a Master of Science degree in engineering. Mercer's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences became the first pharmacy school in the Southeast and the fifth in the nation to offer the Doctor of Pharmacy program. www.mercer.edu
Morehouse School of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine addresses primary health care needs through programs in education, research and service, with emphasis on people of color and the underserved urban and rural populations in Georgia and the nation. www.msm.edu
Oglethorpe University
Oglethorpe University provides a superior education in the liberal arts and sciences and selected professional disciplines in a coeducational, largely residential, small-college environment within a dynamic urban setting. www.oglethorpe.edu
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus (GA-PCOM)
Located in Suwanee, the GA-PCOM Graduation Programs in Biomedical Sciences allow students with baccalaureate degrees to begin their graduate study in the biomedical sciences as additional preparation for professional study or to achieve an advanced biomedical knowledge base for science careers and/or teaching. The College also offers a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program. www.pcom.edu/General_Information/georgia/georgia.html
Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU)
Founded in 1948, Southern Polytechnic State University is a residential, co-educational member of the very progressive University System of Georgia. With approximately 4,000 students averaging 25-30 in each classroom, SPSU offers a dedicated and focused balance of studies in science, lab and liberal arts at both the bachelor and graduate-degree levels. www.spsu.edu
Spelman College
Spelman College is a private, independent, liberal arts, historically black college for women, founded in 1881. The college ranked among the top 75 Best Liberal Arts Colleges according to the U.S. News & World Report, 2007 edition. Washington Monthly ranks Spelman #1 for Social Mobility and Black Enterprise ranks Spelman # 5 on its list of best colleges for African Americans. www.spelman.edu
University of Georgia
Founded in 1785 as America's first chartered state university, UGA is the state's largest and most comprehensive higher education institution, with more than 33,000 students and a major focus on life science research and development. Its 15 schools and colleges include veterinary and agriculture schools and emerging environmental and biological science departments. www.uga.edu
Technology Commercialization Office
The Technology Commercialization Office facilitates the transfer of technology from UGA to commercial enterprises. Since 1974, more than 85 companies have been established by technologies transferred from UGA, the majority of which are bioscience. www.ovpr.uga.edu/tco
Georgia BioBusiness Center
This UGA incubator, in partnership with the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, offers 20,000 square feet of office and wet-lab space. www.biobusiness.uga.edu
Technical Colleges
The Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) oversees the state's 33 technical colleges, adult literacy programs, and a host of economic and workforce development programs. Technical colleges in the Innovation Crescent include:
Athens Technical College www.athenstech.edu
Atlanta Technical College www.atlantatech.edu
Chattahoochee Technical College www.chattcollege.com
DeKalb Technical College www.dekalbtech.edu
Gwinnett Technical College www.gwinnetttech.edu
Lanier Technical College www.laniertech.edu
North Metro Technical College www.northmetrotech.edu
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