For a startup, a key factor in maximizing the value of its assets, thereby gaining substance, increasing the chances of success in developing a business idea and finding funding, is having a Proof of Concept (PoC), or preliminary validation results of their idea.

In the Life Sciences field, reaching a PoC means embarking on a sometimes long and complex journey that involves challenges to be carried out in the laboratory with significant commitments in terms of human and instrumental resources, with constantly rising costs, requiring significant investments.

This poses startups, especially in the early stage, with an imbalance between the investments required to produce experimental results and the value of the project itself, representing a significant barrier to development.

The idea of shared research laboratories was born as a response to this situation: offering laboratory spaces that are already equipped but configurable on demand, which can be used by different entities for the time needed for specific research needs.

This model, which started from significant experiences in the USA, is increasingly spreading in Europe, and Bio4Dreams, for the first time, has started some projects in Italy, already today in the implementation phase.

With this approach, the startup, relieved of the multiple burdens of managing the laboratory, now the responsibility of the space manager, can thus focus on its research goals.

But if it can be relatively simple to design co-working spaces for traditional office activities, it is not so for laboratory activities, which are much more heterogeneous and articulated: research, analysis, quality control, diagnostics, systems for protecting results, etc.

How is it possible to organize a shared research laboratory?

To host a laboratory reality, first of all, it is necessary to have, or better yet design, adequate facilities with technical and safety characteristics that comply with standards and are capable of meeting needs, even very different from each other, in terms of instrumentation, technological infrastructures, and specialist services.

The design, development, and management of shared laboratory spaces must follow precise technical standards and possess high-quality requirements to ensure the characteristics of a work reality that necessarily must keep up with the times both in terms of equipment and work process logic.

Secondly, it is fundamental to understand the needs of scientists and researchers, translating them into accessible solutions that guarantee functionality, modernity, and technological innovation.

Labs2Life: born in the laboratory for laboratories

Labs2Life was created for this purpose: to provide management solutions and services for shared research laboratories ensuring timeliness, efficiency, professionalism, and competence, positioning itself as the single point of contact for the flexible and dynamic management of technical, logistical, and organizational aspects. Its mission is to relieve the researcher or laboratory manager of all these management burdens.

Behind this entity—along with a consolidated network of technical partners—is the experience of professionals from the laboratory world, deep connoisseurs of the mechanisms and criticalities of this world, who have been working for many years alongside researchers, scientists, and doctors to identify and develop optimal solutions.

Labs2Life aims to go beyond the concept of a traditional service provider, configuring itself rather as a partner for growth and development of new synergies.

The services and recipients

Specifically, Labs2Life’s services are configured in three main areas:

• laboratory management, such as logistics, maintenance contracts, access management, environmental services, waste management, and plant availability;
• health and safety services, such as the role of responsible for prevention and protection services (RSPP), specific risk assessments, the drafting of risk assessment documentation (DVR), training plans, compliance for worker health and safety (SSL), and occupational medicine;
• consulting and design, such as design, project evaluation, feasibility studies, collaboration with engineering components (authority, definitive, executive, construction management) and Industry 4.0.

The recipients of these services include local institutions, IRCCS, hospitals, research centers, analysis laboratories, public bodies, industry, etc.

“Let us jumpstart your laboratories”

Claudio Gattuso, Co-founder Labs2Life

Updates

February 2022

🏆 Labs2Life won the call “Incentivi per le PMI dei settori BioHighTech e HighTech con sede nel comune di Trieste – POR FESR 2014-2020“, ranking sixth among the winners.

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