UNIVERSITY RESEARCH

Within an hour’s drive of Norwich, there are three major universities with research efforts focused on the life sciences. Binghamton University, located forty miles to the south, is the most recent entrant in this field of research. The new research facilities at Binghamton University’s Innovative Technology Center include the Institute of Biomedical Technology and the Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging.

At Cornell University, sixty miles to the west, a university-wide collaboration to enhance life sciences research and education resulted in the formation of the Cornell Center for Life Sciences Enterprise, one of fifteen Centers for Advanced Technology in New York State. The Center’s mandate is to benefit the biotechnology and life sciences industries in the state through research and development and technology transfer in the biological and physical sciences. At Syracuse University, fifty miles to the north, the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute focuses on research in biomaterials, smart medical devices and biological tissue engineered constructs.