The Papé Family Innovation Center recently welcomed two new startup companies inspired by Knight Campus research.

SynPlexity — the startup founded by Calin Plesa, assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering — commercializes the DropSynth technology that Plesa helped develop, which enables the assembly of large libraries of genes rapidly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

VivoTex — founded by Paul Dalton, associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering — will manufacture Dalton’s trailblazing 3D printed microfiber scaffolds for advanced cell culture models.

The Papé Family Innovation Center offers a pragmatic mix of meeting spaces, wet lab benches, and procedure rooms and is designed to expedite scientific entrepreneurship