Find lab space that fits your spec.

Size

300–52,000 sq ft

Price

£1,000–£1,500/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Alderley Park is the UK's largest single-site life science campus — 400 acres of parkland with over 1 million sq ft of lab and office space, 30 minutes from Manchester, home to 250+ businesses and ~4,000 members. Operated by Bruntwood SciTech, it offers a genuine growth ladder: a managed coworking lab with published bench pricing, serviced labs, and standalone leased labs from 300 to 52,000 sq ft including new-build options. Its standout draw is the depth of on-site scientific infrastructure — 24/7 walk-up 500MHz NMR, a Waters-partnered open-access LC-MS lab with mass-directed prep chromatography, and Biacore/AKTA/Typhoon platforms all on pay-as-you-go — plus CL2 biology and chemistry suites created through a £20m lab redevelopment.

Size

8,445–13,708 sq ft

Price

From $2,250/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Limited

Altitude Lab is a nonprofit life science accelerator founded by Recursion that houses resident startups inside the BioHive hub on Recursion's Salt Lake City campus at The Gateway. Residents get shared and private wet lab space (BSL-1/BSL-2 molecular and cell biology labs stocked with roughly $1M of equipment) plus co-working offices, on a published membership rate card — $2,250/month for a lab bench, $300–350/month for desks. Unlike a pure landlord, admission is cohort-based into a two-year milestone-driven program with pre-seed capital of $100K–$250K, an $80K fellowship stipend, and a target of getting founders to a seed round by month 18.

Size

300–25,137 sq ft

Price

From $1,820/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-2

Availability

Available

Aquillius is a privately run life-science and medtech innovation hub in San Diego's Rancho Bernardo area, with 25,000+ sq ft of purpose-built lab and office space under one roof. It is unusual among shared-lab providers in combining wet labs and BSL-2 cleanrooms with an on-site vivarium, analytical chemistry suites, and an ESD-safe tech/prototyping lab (3D printers, CNC, SolidWorks workstations) — so device and therapeutics startups can go from bench work to preclinical studies to prototype in the same building. Companies can scale from a single lab bench up to a private lab suite (roughly 300 sq ft to the full 25,137 sq ft floor), alongside incubator programming, mentor/investor networking, and funding guidance.

Size

Not published

Price

From $1,500/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

BTNB (Bio, Tech and Beyond) is a North San Diego County life science incubator offering one of the cheapest entry points into professional wet lab space: $1,500/month for a dedicated 10-foot BSL-2 bench that includes a desk, -20C/-80C freezer space, DI water, liquid nitrogen and access to roughly 30 shared instruments. Founded in 2013 as a City of Carlsbad-backed incubator, it bought its own 7,000 sq ft building at 6076 Corte Del Cedro in 2019 and houses a community of ~20 resident startups. Notably, BTNB explicitly takes no rights to residents' research results, and part-time bench access can be arranged.

Size

600–13,797 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Babraham Research Campus is a 430-acre life science campus outside Cambridge, home to 60+ companies, ~2,000 employees and ~300 academic researchers from the co-located Babraham Institute. It offers a genuine growth ladder under one landlord: LiveLabs shared co-working bench space on 3-month rolling memberships for pre-seed teams, scaling to ScaleLabs fitted wet lab suites from 600 sq ft up to nearly 14,000 sq ft. Its biggest differentiator for founders is subsidised access to the Babraham Institute's core facilities (flow cytometry, genomics/NGS, advanced imaging, bioinformatics) plus the Accelerate@Babraham venture programme.

Size

250 sq ft

Price

From $1,600/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Ask provider

Bakar Bio Labs is UC Berkeley's flagship life-science incubator, operated with QB3 inside the 40,000+ sq ft renovated Woo Hon Fai Hall (the former Berkeley Art Museum), housing up to ~50 startup teams. It is unusual among top-tier incubators in publishing its rates openly — $1,600/month for a 6-ft BSL-2 bench, $600/month per office workstation, plus a $100/person/month membership — and lets companies start with a single bench and scale up. Tenancy is not limited to Berkeley spinouts, but admission is competitive: applicants pitch a selection committee, and accepted teams get campus core-facility access, an extensive shared instrument park, mentoring programs and investor showcases.