Industry Partnership Program

NSF iBioFoundry:
Innovator Accelerator

Engagement

Choose the collaboration tier that fits your approach.

The NSF iBioFoundry integrates synthetic biology, automation, and AI to dramatically accelerate the design-build-test-learn (DBTL) cycle, turning research ideas into prototypes far faster than traditional methods.

Our Industry Partnership Program connects your team with world-class scientists, automation engineers, and AI innovators to compress discovery timelines, secure defensible IP, and cultivate AI-fluent talent capable of transforming your R&D pipeline.

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Tier I – Strategy

Enrich our growing. Empower your in-house decision making with iBioFoundry insights.

Industry Advisory Board Seat
- Shape and advise research and educational projects powered by this partnership program.
Gain Cutting Edge Biofoundry Knowledge
- Technical breakthroughs are reported to you in annual partner meetings and monthly newsletters.
- iBioFoundry Certificate Program.
Talent Pipeline
- Recruit top talents in AI-driven biofoundries.
IP Licensing
- Non-exclusive, royalty-free access to technologies and products developed with federal funding support for in-house.
Visibility Present your accomplishments at annual events.

[$10,000 / year]

Tier II – Execution

Create solutions, first IP access, use iBioFoundry resources for strategy delivery.

Includes everything in TIER I, plus:
Biofoundry Research Consultations
- On-demand advice from AI, automation, synthetic biology experts.
- AlphaSynBio consulting: Accelerating your innovation with AI-powered synthetic biology tools.
- On-site iBioFoundry introductions.
Biofoundry Research Delivery
- iBioFoundry access and instrumentation use: Priority scheduling for Tier II members.
IP Licensing
- First access to invention disclosures
  (90-days exclusivity).
- Priority option to negotiate exclusive commercial licenses.

[$20,000 year]

NSF iBioFoundry Architecture

Overview

High Throughput Screening

Automated Liquid
Handling & Cloning

Robotic System

Overview

High Throughput Screening

Automated Liquid
Handling & Cloning

Robotic System

Sciex Echo® MS+ ZenoTOF 7600 system

High throughput Acoustic Ejection Mass Spectrometry (AEMS).

QuantStudio QS7

Automation-integrated quantitative real-time PCR instrument.

Tecan SPARK Multimode Plate Reader

Automation-integrated plate reader for absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence, and cell imaging.

Agilent BioTek Multiflo FX

Automation-integrated plate washer.

Agilent Fragment Analyzer

Automation-integrated capillary electrophoresis.

Tecan Fluent 1080 Robotic Liquid Handler

Automated pipetting robot with 8-channel and 96-channel multipipetter, robotic gripping arm, and Resolvex i300 module.

Beckman Coulter Echo 650

Acoustic Liquid Handler, transfers >=2.5 nL from 384-well and 1536-well microplates

Singer PIXL

Automated colony picker for high throughput microbial handling.

Unchained Labs Lunatic

High throughput nanodrop platform.

Thermo Kingfisher Presto

Magnetic bead platform for high throughput nucleic acid extraction.

Cytomat 2C Incubators

2x Incubators for SBS format plates, capacity of 14 plates each, for a total capacity of 2688 microbial strains.

Spinnaker robotic arm and platform

Enables automated biological experiments. One of the two robotic platforms is a modular system enabling customizable integration of top level of one additional cart.

inSPIRE robotic arm and platform

Modular system enables customizable integration of two levels of one additional cart. Enables automated biological experiments.

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