Through exploratory and practical research, UMass Lowell’s faculty translates discoveries into powerful solutions with their world-class facilities and research infrastructure. Working across disciplines, faculty members collaborate with industry, startups and communities to innovate and build solutions that make a difference in peoples’ lives.

When John Cadwell recognized the need for hollow fiber bioreactor solutions for laboratory cell culture requirements he capitalized on his idea. In March 2000, Cadwell founded FiberCell Systems, which over the last two decades has supplied hollow fiber bioreactors to the biomedical research and development community.

O2M, a start-up company located in Chicago, IL, offers oxygen imaging instruments and services for regenerative medicine and preclinical cancer studies.

TheWell Bioscience Inc., a New Jersey biotech company focused on 3D cell culture, works to accelerate the process of drug discovery and personalized medicine.

Asymmetrex, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts has the goal of moving the fields of stem cell science and stem cell medicine into a new quantitative era. 

Biocut collaborates with leading bioscience industry companies to assess current market needs and requirements, then develop products that deliver new technology and unparalleled levels of performance which improve productivity which in turn shortens time to market.

SSR (Sustainable Swine Resources) is committed to creating sustainable partnerships with life science companies and researchers to provide high-quality, reliable porcine materials for use in improving, prolonging and saving lives.

NovaSterilis, located in Ithaca, NY, is a company focused on supporting regenerative medicine manufacturers by processing (e.g., cleaning, sterilizing, impregnating, and improving) materials with supercritical carbon dioxide.

Over the last 10 years, Cal Poly has provided well-trained graduates for the Regenerative Medicine Industry through a Regenerative Medicine Interdisciplinary Program that integrates students and faculty from Biomedical Engineering, Biological Sciences, and Animal Science.

Scientists have taken a major step closer to being able to 3D bioprint functional organs by devising a method of rebuilding components of the human heart. FluidForm, a new ARMI member, is making this technology available for research and commercial applications, with the ultimate goal to revolutionize regenerative medicine and impact millions of Americans every year.

Progenesis Technologies LLC, a Huntington, WV bio-engineering company, says producing customized molecular scaffolds from alginate products has a “fundamental advantage over seaweed derived alginates in cost efficiencies and customization for various applications,” according to Gardiner F.H. Smith, Executive Chairman.

CAST, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Wakefield, MA, believes learning should have no limits. Founded in 1984, by education researchers, CAST created the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, a set of principles based on learning sciences including neuropsychology, human development, and education research.

Xylyx Bio spun out of Columbia University’s renowned Laboratory for Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering in 2016 to commercialize matrix bioactives for tissue regeneration and complete cell health.

Axogen is the leading company focused specifically on the science, development, and commercialization of technologies for peripheral nerve regeneration and repair.

Vericel develops, manufactures, and markets autologous cell-based therapies for patients with serious diseases and conditions in sport medicine and severe burn cases and is a leader in the development of autologous cell therapies to repair or restore damaged tissues or organs.

Pluristyx was established in 2018 with the goal of solving challenges associated with cell manufacturing by manufacturing GMP grade pluripotent stem cells at large scale for use as a universal starting material for the further manufacturing of therapeutic regenerative medicine products. 

RoosterBio was founded in 2013 to specifically address the industry-wide bottleneck that is the scarcity of high quality and scalable cellular starting materials for product development and clinical manufacturing, is a pioneer in Regenerative Medicine (RM) manufacturing, with a focus on human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (hMSC) raw materials, bioprocess design, and production technologies.

Sudhin Biopharma is an early-stage Biopharma technology development company located in Superior, CO, founded in 2014 by Prof. Dhinakar Kompala, after taking early retirement from his faculty position in the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

Trailhead Biosystems, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, merges developmental biology and cell therapeutics with cutting edge hardware, computerized experimental design, and analysis to perform process-specific parameter optimization in the development of cell therapies.

AlloSource is a 501(c)3, not-for-profit organization, headquartered in Centennial, Colorado with approximately 500 employees dedicated to advancing the science and use of transplantable allogeneic cells and tissue through pioneering research in regenerative therapies.

ArunA Bio, located in Athens, Georgia, with nearly 20 employees, was founded in 2005 as a developer and manufacturer of human neural-specific cell lines. The company has since transformed into a drug development company with a duel focus platform technology.

BCS was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Rockland, Massachusetts. The company designs and implements custom technology roadmaps for Life Science & Manufacturing companies delivering end-to-end IT and communications solutions that are cost-effective and match specific operational needs.

For over 40 years in the US and 80 years globally, Festo has been a positive force for manufacturers with a passion for automation productivity — intelligent automation solutions that transform the way people work — and the way companies compete.

GSGWM offers a wide variety of outcomes-based STEM programs to over 10,000 girls across Vermont and New Hampshire every year and it is one of just a few of Girl Scout councils in the US to see membership growth for three consecutive years.