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Life Sciences Sectors of Attention

North Carolina's life sciences landscape, like its geographical and biological diversity, is unusually active and varied.

Still, our life sciences foundation contains three sturdy pillars: human health, agricultural bioscience and industrial biotechnologies.

As life sciences and related technologies evolve, they bring new opportunities. Sometimes the cutting edges of new discoveries begin to overlap and form even more possibilities at these points of convergence. Where North Carolina has potential for real strength in such convergence, NCBiotech works to transform them into new opportunities for the state.

NCBiotech staff experts continually evaluate and encourage the best life sciences ideas from our partners across the state and around the globe. Then, as appropriate, they'll establish focused initiatives to explore the possibilities for capitalizing on them. Here are current examples of these programs and sectors already strong in North Carolina:

Agriculture

Agriculture

R&D at universities and 200 ag tech companies boost North Carolina’s $86 billion ag sector with plant and animal production innovations.

Bio Defense

Bio Defense

From shielding the troops on the battlefield to healing the wounded, life sciences technologies make a big impact on our nation’s defense capabilities and on the state’s $38 billion defense industry.

Precision Health

Precision Health

Imagine tailoring medical care to an individual's unique characteristics, including susceptibility to disease and response to treatments. North Carolina has significant resources in the areas of precision health and precision medicine, which have come together under the banner of the North Carolina Precision Health Collaborative.

Human Therapeutics

Human Therapeutics

Human Therapeutics, including North Carolina's world-leading biomanufacturing facilities and workforce enable new high-speed production of vaccines and other life-saving therapies.

Medical Devices

Medical Devices

From medical engineering labs to global manufacturers of medical devices, North Carolina is rich in breakthrough technologies that enable faster, more precise, and less expensive options for diagnosing and treating medical conditions in animals and people.

Contract Service Organizations

Contract Service Organizations

North Carolina is the birthplace of this world-changing industry and remains its global epicenter, because we have the scientific minds to create new drugs and diagnostics, and to help meet testing milestones to get life-saving medicines to patients.

Photo Credits:

Courtesy of Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center

NCSU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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