The people, infrastructure, and expertise needed in life sciences & health to move ideas from discovery to real-world impact.
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.
The hub connects rural health research to actionable solutions, including curated introductions to startups that can meet documented gaps in care.
BioCoLab gives early-stage companies shared wet lab space, advanced analytical equipment, and expert technical support.
When the bottleneck is the systems around the science, the hub helps reduce burden and surface insights faster.
Define the right use case, validate it responsibly, and prepare teams to use AI safely in clinical settings.
The Founder Residency helps move promising prototypes toward validated, regulatory-ready results.
The hub supports data-informed public health infrastructure, chronic disease response, and state-level partnerships.
The Gap Year Program places recent graduates in paid clinical roles with career support and institutional backing.
Every organization enters at a different point in the innovation lifecycle. Choose a category below to see the specific ways we work together, from a single co-op to a multi-year research partnership.
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Get connected to a degree program and build the skills to work at the intersection of life sciences, health, and AI.
Explore our graduate degree programs in life sciences, data science, and computational health, and find the path that fits where you want to go.
Spend a year building applied research and industry experience before graduate school, with direct mentorship from our faculty and industry partners.
Bring emerging talent directly into your organization, from a single project to a full co-op placement.
Host a student for a six-month, full-time co-op placement embedded in your team, working on real problems from day one.
Sponsor a semester-long applied project scoped to a real challenge your organization is facing, delivered by a supervised student team.
Engage students working hands-on in our shared lab space, applying their training to problems that matter to your organization.
Build capability across your workforce, from a single course to a full graduate degree.
Commission a training program built around your team’s specific skill gaps, delivered by our faculty and practitioners.
Learn directly from our AI Solutions Hub team through structured sessions that transfer applied AI knowledge to your staff.
Enroll staff in short, applied courses that build practical AI and life sciences skills without a full degree commitment.
Send employees into our graduate degree programs in life sciences, data science, and related fields, part-time or full-time.
Tap our expertise for strategic guidance, without a full research commitment.
Engage faculty experts on a fee-for-service basis for technical guidance on a specific question or decision.
Get strategic input from our AI Solutions Hub on your data and AI roadmap before committing to a build.
Bring in a supervised student team for a focused consulting engagement, scoped and delivered on your timeline.
Embed a technical engineer directly within your team for a defined engagement, working from inside your systems and workflows.
Build and deploy working solutions with our team, not just a proof of concept.
Partner with our AI Solutions Hub to design, build, and deploy a working solution for your organization.
Use our working lab team to develop and test applied prototypes before a full deployment.
Commission a defined research deliverable through our fee-for-service research team, scoped to your timeline and budget.
Advance new technology, IP, and ventures alongside our research and venture creation teams.
Fund a research program aligned with your organization’s priorities, with faculty and student researchers on the team.
Commission specific research services on a fee-for-service basis, with a defined scope and deliverable.
Access specialized lab equipment and space for your own R&D, including BioCoLab and BioPILOT Lab capabilities.
Partner with our Venture Studio to launch or scale a life sciences or health startup, from concept through funding.
Give your startup a home, from its first prototype through its first wet lab run.
Join the Roux Incubator for dedicated space, mentorship, and a community of founders building alongside you.
Access wet lab bench space and shared equipment through BioCoLab to run your experiments without building out your own lab.
Use our physical space for your team, your event, or your next big gathering.
Rent meeting or event space in our facility for a single session or a recurring booking.
Host a conference or symposium at our campus, with support for setup and logistics.
Reserve desk or office space for your team, on a short-term or ongoing basis.
Support our mission and gain visibility across the life sciences and health innovation community.
Sponsor a hub event and connect directly with our community of researchers, students, and entrepreneurs.
Join our Industry Alliance Program for ongoing partnership benefits, including early access to talent and research.
“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
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.
Use five practical questions to decide whether a clinical or operational AI idea is ready to scope, validate, or pause.
Not sure whether you need BioCoLab, research, co-op talent, workforce support, or a founder pathway? Tell us what you are trying to do.
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
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.
Improve outcomes through analytics, prevention, and access.
Turn data into insights that accelerate discovery and decision-making.
Advance breakthrough science into therapeutics, diagnostics, and devices.
Partner to co-develop solutions and drive adoption.
For collaborative innovation in life sciences and health.
Launched, supported, or scaled.
Educated, trained, and placed in mission-aligned careers.
Eugene Tunik, PhD
Senior Associate Dean of Research and Innovation; Professor,...
Tony DiMarco, PhD
Mentor In Residence at the Roux Institute
Todd Haedrich
Chief Executive Officer at Optimize Health
Enoch Huang, PhD
Mentor In Residence at the Roux Institute
S.K. Lee
Investor, Coach, Founder
Philip Licari, MBA
Entrepreneur In Residence at the Roux Institute; Part-time...
Jennifer Monti, MD
Cardiologist and Research Scientist at Meta
Lizzy Mulcahy
Director of Telehealth at MaineHealth
David Shoemaker, PhD
Regulatory Consultant
Whether you are ready to scope a partnership, looking for the right introduction, or just want to follow future briefings and stories, tell us how you would like to engage.
