The BioInnovation Center provides companies with customized commercialization services, premier facil
12/30/2025
📣 Attention Founders! There is still time to apply to the 3rd Coast Venture Summit!
📌 The Summit brings together early-stage founders raising $1M–$20M with national investors and industry leaders. It's designed for companies with connectivity to the Gulf South -- Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida -- and provides a focused platform for visibility, strategic feedback, and connections that can accelerate growth and fundraising.
📌 What to Expect:
• Curated 1:1 investor meeting
• Industry-spanning pitch opportunities
• Smaller-format networking
Experience New Orleans while connecting with investors and peers!
Wishing our tenants, colleagues, supporters and friends a very Happy Holidays! ❤️ The NOBIC Team
12/18/2025
"The visibility has been incredible from winning BioChallenge 2025. Investors started reaching out immediately. Our social media campaign gained significant traction, and we secured a $250K funding commitment. A major pharmaceutical company with an Alzheimer’s portfolio contacted us after hearing about our win. It’s opened so many doors on the fundraising and partnership fronts-" Samantha Scott, PhD CEO and Founder JuneBrain Inc.
Check out our Q+A with BioChallenge 2025 winner JuneBrain Inc. Samantha and her team have created a wearable device that identifies neurological and eye conditions. Samantha's own health journey is inspiration for the technology.
Team NOBIC had a great week in San Diego at the CTAD Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease 2025 conference!
11/26/2025
A thank you video tribute to our 2025 BioChallenge Sponsors. Your contributions helped us support founders creating innovative technologies in and .
11/25/2025
Giving thanks today for the judges that supported BioChallenge 2025. Their time, passion and expertise were critical to the success of the competition. Thank you all for your incredible support.
11/24/2025
📣 NOBIC is hiring a Chief Facilities Manager to join our team. The Chief Facilities Manager leads the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of NOBIC’s 66,000 square foot building and lab infrastructure. This role owns strategy (budgets, capital plans, vendor management), day‑to‑day operations (work orders, preventive maintenance, events), and compliance (OSHA/EPA/NFPA/State/City).
It takes a small and mighty village to make an event like BioChallenge organized, efficient and seamless. Thank you to NOBIC intern team and for helping us do just that. We are grateful for their time and support.
11/15/2025
The inaugural Gateway pitch is today! Excited to have Louisiana team on campus and see these aspiring entrepreneur's bring innovation ideas to life.
Thank you JPMorganChase for supporting our advancing diversity in life sciences initiative.
11/06/2025
Read all about NOBIC in this month's healthcare issue of Biz New Orleans Magazine. We are honored to be featured as the cover story highlighting our initiatives and showcasing BioChallenge 2025.
"Brain health touches every family and every employer, and we urgently need new technologies to deliver better outcomes-” NOBIC Executive Director Kris Khalil
📣 Shout out to our incredible sponsors who made this pitch comp possible: Presenting sponsor: UNT Health Institute for Translational Research! | BioDistrict New Orleans, JPMorganChase, New Orleans BioFund , U.S. Economic Development Administration, Jones Walker LLP, ANSWER ALS, Greater New Orleans, Inc. – GNO, Inc., VentureWell, LA.IO, Entergy, Delta Utilities, Downtown Development District of New Orleans, HomeBank, LSU Health Foundation New Orleans, 3Brain AG, Advanced Office Systems, Jennifer Hartt, Eva Garland Consulting, LLC + Baptist Community Ministries
❤️ Thank you to our finalist judges: Dr. Sid O’Bryant, Christian Howell, Phyllis Ferrell, Trivia Frazier, Jennifer Hartt + David Weiner
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The New Orleans BioInnovation Center is a private, not-for-profit business incubator, supporting entrepreneurship and dedicated to the development of bioscience innovation throughout Louisiana. The Center works directly with entrepreneurs and researchers to commercialize new technologies spinning out of Louisiana universities and healthcare institutions, as well as those developed by independent innovators, to start and scale new globally competitive life science companies.
Our MISSION is to empower Louisiana innovators to create successful biotech businesses by providing them with access to customized commercialization services, premier facilities, and a comprehensive support network.
Our VISION is for Louisiana to be recognized as a leader of biotech innovation and commercialization. Our network of entrepreneurs, researchers, business and community leaders, and investors will work together to generate well-paying jobs in high-growth industries, attract significant private investment, and foster economic growth across the region.
Our VALUES are:
Empowerment – We provide entrepreneurs with the skills, tools, and knowledge to help them deliver innovative solutions to complex problems.
Community – We connect innovators with a broad network of stakeholders who are dedicated to serving Louisiana through scientific advancement and local economic development.
Inclusion – We promote opportunities for underrepresented groups to build a biotech community that reflects the rich diversity of Louisiana.
