Those additions allow Janssen Labs to accommodate more than double the number of companies as when it launched in late 2011 as a 30,000-square-foot incubator aimed at housing 18 to 20 biotech start-ups

Average asking rents for lab space in Cambridge, Boston's R&D epicenter has returned to peak levels of $54.61 per square foot

The 80,000-square-foot expansion is expected to be completed in March 2014 and is intended to manufacture insulin cartridges to meet the growing diabetes demand in the U.S

New facilities within the complex will include 25,000 square feet of manufacturing infrastructure, labs and clean rooms

Spring Point Project will contribute experience with current good manufacturing practice and the use of its 21,000 square foot facility in support of the trials

Calibr's inception may have been modeled after the successful Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), which was founded in 1999 and has grown to more than 500 employees, occupying a 260,000-square-foot research center in La Jolla, Calif

However, it did say that the 240,000-square-foot plant would "further enhance the company's ability to bring treatments for illnesses such as cancer and diabetes to patients worldwide

However, it did say that the 240,000-square-foot plant would "further enhance the company's ability to bring treatments for illnesses such as cancer and diabetes to patients worldwide

Johnson & Johnson recently launched two initiatives that fall at the opposite end of the spectrum: a partnership with Polaris Venture Partners and a 30,000-square foot incubator in San Diego

Earlier this month, the company said it would not renew the lease on its 31,000-square-foot production facility when it expires next year

Novavax Inc., of Rockville, Md., entered a long-term lease arrangement for 74,000 square feet of manufacturing, lab and office space in two facilities in Gaithersburg, Md

Darren Wolfe, president of Pittsburgh-based Diamyd Inc., a unit of Diamyd Medical AB, of Stockholm, Sweden, said relationships helped his company get funding: "After the fifth time of, 'No,' they said, 'Yes.'" Diamyd was spun out of the University of Pittsburgh into a 147-square-foot office space through money from family and friends

Johnson & Johnson launched a 30,000-square-foot San Diego biotech incubator

Staff Writer SAN DIEGO – Johnson & Johnson is expected to announce Tuesday the launch of Janssen Labs at San Diego, a 30,000-square-foot incubator designed to serve as the future home for 18 to 20 biotech start-ups

is holding the official grand opening of its new 25,000 square-foot facility today

Avila Therapeutics Inc., of Bedford, Mass., relocated to a 23,000-square-foot facility in Bedford

Acorda Therapeutics Inc., of Hawthorne, N.Y., plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to a 138,000-square-foot laboratory and office space at the Ardsley Park life science campus in Ardsley, N.Y., which was acquired by BioMed Realty Trust Inc

Boger wouldn't be surprised after seeing Wuxi AppTec's new 300,000 square foot Suzhou nonclinical testing facility near Shanghai with 80 nonrodent and 28 rodent study rooms and a nonhuman primate housing capacity for as many as 1,500 monkeys