Lab Space for Rent in Research Triangle

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

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

From $300/lab/mo

Biosafety

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Availability

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First Flight Venture Center (FFVC) is a non-profit science and technology incubator founded in 1991 in the heart of Research Triangle Park, offering roughly 25,000 sq ft of customizable wet lab and office space across approximately 32 labs and 32 offices, housing 30–40 early-stage companies at a time. Space is built out to each startup's needs (power drops, sinks, bench configurations) on flexible leases rather than long multi-year commitments. It also runs Hangar6, an on-site digital prototyping studio with 3D printing, laser cutting and CNC machining, plus accelerator and non-dilutive funding programs (WheelsUP, FAST SBIR, BARDA DRIVe, LiftOff grant-writing support).

Size

120–1,800 sq ft

Price

On request

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

Limited

The NanoBio LaunchPad is Gateway Research Park's co-working incubator for early-stage nano-bio startups that need high-tech lab space at a size and price point commercial landlords rarely offer. Its real edge is physical adjacency to the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) — tenants can tap a 7,000 sq ft cleanroom, materials test center, high-resolution MRI and university instrumentation that would be cost-prohibitive to buy. Note for founders: despite the name sometimes appearing under Research Triangle Park, the facility is in Greensboro, NC, on Gateway's 75-acre South Campus, with a companion "Flex Lab" of 120–396 sq ft private labs on the North Campus in Brown Summit.

Size

10,000 sq ft

Price

Rates not published online. Hourly/usage-based kitchen rental with an initiation fee; no annual contracts and no annual fees.

Biosafety

Not published

Availability

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Piedmont Food Processing Center (formerly the Piedmont Food and Agricultural Processing Center) is a 10,000+ sq ft shared-use commercial kitchen and food business incubator in Hillsborough, NC, established in 2011 as a joint project of Alamance, Chatham, Durham and Orange counties. It offers four fully equipped commercial kitchens rented by the hour with exclusive use during your booked slot, 24/7 access, and GMP-standard dry, refrigerated and frozen storage. Note for biotech founders: this is food/ag processing and CPG manufacturing infrastructure — not a BSL-rated research wet lab — best suited to food science, nutraceutical, cosmetic and fermentation-adjacent ventures needing regulated production space.