life sciences

In the Lead: Legacy Businesses
Jul 15, 2025

BD to spin off biosciences, diagnostics businesses in $17.5B deal (updated)

Earlier this year, the Franklin Lakes-based company unveiled plans to divest the divisions to focus on its core business.

Jul 11, 2025

Office updates: Kardigan inks Princeton lease following $300M raise

JLL helped the biopharma secure space to establish its East Coast presence, one of several recent transactions in the sector bringing tenants to Monmouth, Somerset and Morris counties.

Cottontail Logistics Center in Somerset totals 236,000 square feet.
Jul 11, 2025

Somerset lease-up leads 321K sq. ft. in NJ industrial deals for CBRE

In addition to bringing the Cottontail Logistics Center to full occupancy, the firm also secured a renewal in Parsippany.

List: Life Sciences
Jul 2, 2025

Quest Diagnostics tops NJ life sciences employer list

With 3,750 workers, the Secaucus-based company takes the No. 1 spot on the most recent compilation of companies working in the industry in New Jersey. Find out who rounds out the top five.

Cellares' Kashiwa City facility rendering
Jun 30, 2025

Cellares expands global reach with cell therapy tech

The company is growing quickly in New Jersey and internationally with Smart Factories, an FDA designation and key partnerships to advance scalable, cost-effective cell therapy manufacturing.

An interior rendering for HELIX 1 in New Brunswick. - PROVIDED BY JLL
Jun 25, 2025

JLL marketing plug-and-play lab suites at HELIX in New Brunswick

The five turnkey spaces offer access to the forthcoming New Jersey Innovation Hub, as well as services, amenities, targeted programming and more.

Portal Innovations will design and manage innovation and lab incubation space at the upcoming NJ Innovation Hub at HELIX NJ’s H-1 in New Brunswick.
May 15, 2025

Portal to lead life sciences incubator at HELIX NJ

The Chicago venture capital firm will design and manage 30,000 square feet of lab space to help support life sciences startups and entrepreneurs from area research universities.

BioNJ's 15th Annual BioPartnering Conference took place May 13, 2025, at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City.
May 13, 2025

On the scene: BioNJ’s 2025 BioPartnering Conference

Get a sneak peek of the action from the annual event, which brings together leaders and stakeholders from life sciences, investment, academia and more.

Middlesex County Administrator John Pulomena speaks with NJBIZ Editor Jeff Kanige on April 9, 2025.
May 12, 2025

NJBIZ Conversations: Middlesex County Administrator John Pulomena

The official discusses ongoing projects and the development boom transforming the region's landscape and economy.

The Incubator at the New Jersey Bioscience Center offers lab space starting at 900 square feet up to 1,300 square feet, conference rooms, private offices and the opportunity to collaborate.
Apr 28, 2025

North Brunswick bioscience hub fuels NJ innovation

Discover how the New Jersey Bioscience Center powers life sciences development, supporting startups, research and economic growth statewide.

Chrissy Buteas, president and CEO of the Health Care Institute of New Jersey
Apr 7, 2025

Inaugural HINJ summit explores critical sector: life sciences

The Health Care Institute of New Jersey said the purpose of the event was to inform industry leaders, policymakers and stakeholders about the future of the industry — and the Garden State’s leading role in advancing global health.

Joining the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey summit are panelists (from left) Michele Siekerka, president and CEO, New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA); Peter Connolly, CEO, New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program; Tim Sullivan, CEO, New Jersey Economic Development Authority; AJ Sabath, representative, New Jersey State Building and Construction Trades Council; and Sandy Castor department head of economic development, Middlesex County.
Mar 7, 2025

HINJ’s inaugural life sciences summit focuses on the future

Held at the Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters Technical Center, the event convened industry leaders, policymakers and other key stakeholders for networking as well as insightful panel discussions about the future of this key sector here in the great Garden State.