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Flexible, Transparent, and Thoughtful: What Lab Planners Can Learn from Umoja Biopharma
Umoja Biopharma’s new Seattle headquarters offers a model for mission-driven lab design, showing how flexibility, biophilic elements, and collaborative problem-solving can create a resilient, future-ready space that aligns with both scientific goals and employee wellbeing
Call for Speakers: Share Your Expertise at the 2026 Lab Design Conference
Lab Design is now accepting speaker proposals for the 2026 Lab Design Conference, prioritizing sessions that feature lab end users, share real-world lessons learned, and offer practical, health- and safety-focused insights for lab planning, renovation, and optimization—submissions are due by August 8
Strategic Renovation: Updating a QC Lab to Meet Rising API Demands
A recent renovation of a quality control laboratory offers a useful case study in addressing common lab challenges—modernizing outdated infrastructure, improving workflow efficiency, supporting GMP compliance, and enabling future scalability—all while maintaining operations through phased construction and close collaboration with lab users
Transforming a Legacy: NIH Renovation Project Honored in 2025 Design Excellence Awards
The NIH has completed a transformative renovation of the E-Wing of Building 10, a 250,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project designed by Perkins&Will that modernizes the historic Clinical Center to support cutting-edge translational research, patient care, and biomedical education—an effort recognized in the 2025 Design Excellence Awards for Whole Building/Holistic Design—Renovated
Courtroom-to-Lab Conversion: Adaptive Reuse for Next-Gen STEM Education
UMBC transformed a historic courthouse into advanced classroom and lab space to support growing programs in computing, cybersecurity, and engineering while preserving and repurposing existing infrastructure
Scaling Discovery: FibroBiologics Unveils New Houston Lab to Accelerate Cell-Based Therapeutics
FibroBiologics has expanded its Houston laboratory to a 10,000-sf facility designed to enhance in-house R&D, manufacturing, and collaboration capabilities, supporting the company’s mission to accelerate the development of fibroblast-based therapies for chronic diseases
Pharma Company Announces Major Expansions at Two US Drug Manufacturing Sites
Piramal Pharma is investing $90 million to expand its drug manufacturing facilities in Kentucky and Michigan, enhancing sterile injectable production and bioconjugate capabilities to support growing US demand and onshoring efforts
UNC Pauses $228M Research Facility Amid Federal Funding Uncertainty
UNC-Chapel Hill has paused construction of its $228 million Translational Research Building due to growing uncertainty over federal funding, including the loss of 104 research grants and proposed cuts to indirect cost recovery that threaten its primary financing strategy
New Laboratory Reinforces National Standards for Weights and Measures
The National Council on Weights and Measures has opened a new headquarters and National Type Evaluation Program Laboratory in Nebraska, designed to enhance certification capacity for weighing devices, support fair commerce, and ensure timely market access through purpose-built, future-ready testing infrastructure
The Future of Labs—Designing for Automation
At the 2025 Lab Design Conference, architect Yvonne Choe emphasized that as automation and AI transform laboratory workflows, infrastructure, and staffing, lab design must evolve to support not only robotic systems but also the human collaboration and innovation that drive scientific discovery