Could Pitts­burgh be­come a new bio­phar­ma hub? Acad­e­mia, non­prof­it team up on $100M grant to en­tice in­dus­try

A 178-acre prop­er­ty on a stretch of the Pitts­burgh river­front used to be the home of an old steel mill that shut down in the 1990s. Now, it will get an up­grade from a $100 mil­lion grant out of the Richard King Mel­lon Foun­da­tion to turn it in­to a bio man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ty run by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh.

The site, known as Hazel­wood Green, is near­ly half the size of Pitts­burgh’s down­town and will be trans­formed in­to a home for cell and gene ther­a­py. It will be dubbed Pitt Bio­Forge, and of­fer re­search teams, com­mer­cial and re­search part­ners high-tech man­u­fac­tur­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties, a wet lab and oth­er spaces for in­no­va­tion.

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