Lab Space for Rent in Boston

Size

Up to 37,000 sq ft

Price

From $2,200/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

BioLabs is the largest international membership network of shared, fully-equipped co-working lab and office facilities, with 20+ sites embedded in major innovation clusters — often co-located with anchor institutions such as Tufts, Yale West Campus, NYU Langone, UVM, TUM Munich, and Pegasus Park in Dallas. Members can start with a single bench and scale into private BSL-2 lab suites and offices with no long-term lease, and get concierge lab operations, shared core equipment, and heavy sponsor engagement (Thermo Fisher, Agilent, Sigma-Aldrich) including "Golden Ticket" pharma-sponsored free bench programs. It has hosted 500+ life science companies whose members have raised over $5B, making it the default landing pad for venture-track biotech founders who want instant credibility and pharma access alongside space.

Size

10,000 sq ft

Price

From $3,300/bench/mo

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

A 10,000 sq ft wet/dry lab incubator on the Harvard Medical School Quad in Longwood, built for Harvard-affiliated therapeutics ventures from pre-seed through roughly Series A and sized for about 12 resident companies. It is unusual in combining a hard Harvard-affiliation eligibility gate with LabCentral running day-to-day operations, so founders get LabCentral-grade facility management plus discounted access to HMS core facilities and a Therapeutics Development Translator for scientific guidance. Companies can start with a single month-to-month bench and scale to a private four-bench suite, but residency is capped at two years.

Size

Up to 40,000 sq ft

Price

From $1,000

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Limited

JLABS is Johnson & Johnson's global life-science incubator network, offering wet lab benches, private lab suites and offices on a genuinely "no-strings-attached" basis — J&J takes no equity, claims no IP rights, and does not require confidential information to apply. Residents get capital-light access to shared instrumentation, EH&S and operations management, plus J&J scientific mentorship, investor/partnering days and QuickFire Challenge funding. Important caveat for 2026: JLABS has sharply contracted, closing Houston, Washington D.C. and Toronto and handing its NYC site to the New York Genome Center, leaving San Diego, South San Francisco and Boston (via LabCentral) as the only remaining North American physical sites.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Available

Labshares runs three turnkey shared-lab campuses in Greater Boston (55 Chapel St and 90 Bridge St in Newton, plus a new 66 Galen St campus in Watertown), offering everything from a single wet bench to private lab suites under one all-inclusive membership. Members get access to over $15M of shared instrumentation and a full back-end lab operation — on-site lab management, equipment calibration, EHS and biohazard waste handling — so founders can run experiments without building or staffing a facility. The 2025 Watertown lease roughly doubled their footprint to over 100,000 sq ft, and their FastTrack program (3 benches for the price of 1, 1-year term) targets funded startups that can be at the bench within about a week.

Size

15,000 sq ft

Price

Not published. Described by the provider as below-market rates; specific bench/desk pricing available only on application.

Biosafety

BSL-1, BSL-2

Availability

Limited

A 15,000 sq ft, two-story wet lab and co-working facility on Harvard's Allston campus, operated by Harvard Innovation Labs in partnership with LabCentral and Harvard Medical School. It offers 36 lab benches (from a single bench up to private 10-bench suites) plus 50 coworking desks, with 7,000+ sq ft of shared BSL-1/BSL-2 space, tissue culture rooms, fume hood alcoves and a microscopy room. The critical catch for founders: a founding member or C-suite executive must have a Harvard affiliation (alumni, faculty, staff, postdoc, or affiliated medical center/research institute) — but in exchange, ventures keep 100% of their IP and give up no equity.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Available

Alexandria LaunchLabs is the incubator platform of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, offering research-ready, fully furnished private and shared lab and office space to seed- and early-stage life science companies of roughly 1–35 people across six US clusters: New York City, Cambridge, Seattle, San Diego, the SF Bay Area (Stanford Research Park) and Research Triangle. What sets it apart from a typical incubator is that space sits inside Alexandria's Megacampus ecosystems and comes bundled with roughly 30 pieces of shared core equipment, curated programming and mentorship, plus direct access to startup capital through Alexandria Venture Investments and the Alexandria Seed Capital Platform. The NYC facility was the first laboratory space in the world to achieve a WELL Health-Safety Rating.

Size

Not published

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Ask provider

Tufts Launchpad | BioLabs is a 14,000 sq ft fully licensed coworking lab on the 14th floor of 75 Kneeland Street, run jointly by BioLabs and Tufts University at the edge of Chinatown next to Tufts Medical Center. Its distinguishing advantage is that resident startups get the same access as Tufts-affiliated academics to university core facilities — mass spectrometry, sequencing, peptide synthesis, confocal microscopy, animal testing services and the Tufts Vivarium — plus visibility into clinical trials at Tufts Medical Center. The site has hosted close to 90 companies and roughly 700 scientists since 2018, with 27 resident companies as of mid-2026 and a second Tufts/BioLabs incubator for future foods and biomaterials opening on the Medford/Somerville campus in fall 2026.