Life Sciences & Health Innovation Hub

Where Maine's life sciences & health ecosystem comes to build

The people, infrastructure, and expertise needed in life sciences & health to move ideas from discovery to real-world impact.

Find your way in

Ways to Engage

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How organizations engage

Find your way in.

Start with the challenge you recognize. Each pathway opens into examples, proof points, and next steps that match your role in Maine’s health and life sciences ecosystem.

For rural hospitals & maternity care providers

You know what your patients can’t access.

The hub connects rural health research to actionable solutions, including curated introductions to startups that can meet documented gaps in care.

Rural healthFounder ResidencyWorkforce

For biotech & life sciences startups

Your bottleneck is equipment and expertise.

BioCoLab gives early-stage companies shared wet lab space, advanced analytical equipment, and expert technical support.

BioCoLabWet lab accessResearch

For established health & life sciences organizations

Your data workflows are where time goes to die.

When the bottleneck is the systems around the science, the hub helps reduce burden and surface insights faster.

Custom AIWorkflow automationCo-ops

For health systems & hospital networks

You need AI that can be trusted in care.

Define the right use case, validate it responsibly, and prepare teams to use AI safely in clinical settings.

GovernanceValidation

For early-stage health tech founders

You need clinical-grade results.

The Founder Residency helps move promising prototypes toward validated, regulatory-ready results.

ResidencyRegulatory strategy

For state agencies & public health organizations

You need a system that can act on the gaps.

The hub supports data-informed public health infrastructure, chronic disease response, and state-level partnerships.

Public healthAI Solutions

For healthcare providers seeking workforce solutions

Maine needs people.

The Gap Year Program places recent graduates in paid clinical roles with career support and institutional backing.

Gap YearHealthcare workforce

The situation

What this looks like

What engagement looks like for you

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“Rooted in Maine, connected to a global university network. The Innovation Hub supports every stage of innovation, from a researcher’s discovery or a student’s first idea, to a scaling startup, to industry partnerships that bring new solutions to life. Because innovation happens everywhere, and it deserves support everywhere too.”

Elena Brondolo

Director, Health & Life Sciences Venture Creation

Not ready for a project? Start with a useful next step.

The hub should not only be a place people contact when they already know what they need. These entry points let partners, founders, clinicians, and researchers learn, self-assess, and stay close to the ecosystem.

Health AI readiness checklist

Use five practical questions to decide whether a clinical or operational AI idea is ready to scope, validate, or pause.

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Not sure whether you need BioCoLab, research, co-op talent, workforce support, or a founder pathway? Tell us what you are trying to do.

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What We Do

The people, infrastructure, and expertise to move ideas into impact.

The Life Sciences & Health Innovation Hub brings together academic researchers, entrepreneurs, clinical and industry partners, students, and infrastructure to accelerate breakthroughs that improve lives.

Accelerate innovation from basic science to translation and venture creation

Develop talent through graduate programs, co-ops, and workforce pathways

Connect researchers, entrepreneurs, health leaders, industry partners, and communities

Drive measurable impact for patients, companies, communities, and Maine’s economy

BioCoLab

Rural Health Initiatives

Healthcare Entrepreneurship Programs

Hub Program Partners

Built with the organizations moving health and life sciences forward.

The hub brings together health systems, research institutions, funders, startups, workforce partners, and industry collaborators across Maine and Northern New England.

Upcoming Events

Northern New England MedTech Conference

11.12.2026 - 11.13.2026

Our Stories

See what collaboration looks like.

AI-Powered Startup Transforms Cardiac Care Through Technology and Partnership

For Claire Beskin, co-founder of Empallo, a Future of Healthcare Founder Residency Program, improving cardiac care isn’t just about developing cutting-edge technology—it’s about making that technology work for both patients and providers in the real world. This vision has driven Empallo’s evolution from an ambitious AI platform to a comprehensive virtual cardiology care provider that’s now actively seeing patients across three states.

Needs Assessment of the Obstetric Workforce in Maine’s Rural Hospitals

Rural to Referral: Assessing the Obstetric Workforce Landscape in the State of Maine

Using technology to provide needed nutrition care education to expecting moms, babies and families

Mother of Fact, which participated in the inaugural year of the residency in 2023, offers personalized online nutrition and dietary support to pregnant and post-partum mothers via a digital platform that connects patients directly with registered dietitians.

Startup's Non-Invasive Heart Monitoring Technology Seeks FDA Breakthrough Status with Support from Roux Institute Mentor

For Mehdi, co-founder of Coredio, transforming critical cardiac care started with a simple idea: what if doctors could monitor heart failure patients’ vital cardiac metrics without invasive procedures? Today, with support from the Roux Institute’s regulatory experts, that idea is closer to reaching patients who need it most.

Health Analytics Startup Finds Clients, Co-Ops, and Community at the Roux Institute

For Ken Shapiro, the co-founder of Apriqot, starting a public health analytics company shortly after moving across the country from California to Maine was a leap of faith.