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From Innovative Idea to Commercial Success

Home to an increasing number of promising plant and life science companies from the incubation stage to post-incubation stage, BRDG Park is a place where good ideas become great businesses. BRDG Park is uniquely positioned to host plant and life science and clean-tech companies. In addition to housing a biotech training and development program providing a skilled workforce, BRDG Park provides all the amenities necessary for companies that have advanced their science, demonstrated proof of concept, raised equity capital, and are poised for growth.

BRDG Park’s advantages include:

  • Facilities with state-of-the-art wet laboratory and office space designed for plant and life science companies, as well as convenient access to the intellectual capital of Danforth Plant Science Center scientists to discuss research and its applications.
  • Vital on-site resources include access to technologically advanced greenhouses and growth chambers as well as tissue culture and transformation, microscopy, proteomics, and bioinformatics facilities and expertise.
  • BRDG Park is located in a thriving international center for plant and life science research, home to nearly 400 plant and life science companies employing more than 16,500 people.
  • A suburban St. Louis County campus located adjacent to Monsanto’s world headquarters and minutes from dynamic scientific research centers, including Washington University, St. Louis University and the Missouri Botanical Garden, as well as leading scientific companies, such as Sigma- Aldrich, Covidien and Bunge North America.
  • Key on-site partnerships provide important resources. These include the St. Louis Community College Center for Plant and Life Sciences Biotechnician training program for technical workforce development and training, creating unique and innovative opportunities for collaborations between academia and industry, and Nidus Partners, a partnership to advance innovative technologies at the confluence of energy and agriculture for commercial success.
  • Each year BRDG Park hosts the Ag Innovation Showcase, a global event that brings together agriculture’s industry leaders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and investors. The signature event promotes emerging technologies in ag-bio, food and nutrition, biofuels, sustainable materials, clean-tech, information technology and animal health.
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