Featured Companies in Georgia
With strong talent, a spirit of collaboration between public, private and academic communities and access to the world, Georgia is the crossroads of global health. Our work in biology and health care is nurtured by the technology partnerships and funding sources that drive Georgia to the forefront of the global community of life science innovation. In fact, our bio- and life-sciences industry has a $7 billion impact on our state’s GDP and employs more than 60,000 people. This is in addition to our tremendous research university network that has an $800 million impact on the state’s GDP and employs almost 15,000 people to facilitate the advancement of life science innovation.
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This growth is one reason the state played host to 14,532 industry leaders from 58 countries and 48 states at the Bio International Convention May 18-21, 2009 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. (Right: Georgia's pavilion at the recent 2010 International Bio Convention in Chicago.) Some 1,800 companies helped conduct 14,000-plus one-on-one partner meetings. Also in attendance were numerous Georgia-based companies, as well as state universities, hospitals, and research institutions that support the industry.
Contact
To learn more about what Georgia can do to help you in the field of Biosciences, please contact Stacey Davis at 404-962-4127 or sdavis@georgia.org.
For information on our industry sectors, click on a link below:
Industry Statistics and Georgia Government Links
Incubators
Georgia Research Alliance
Resources in Georgia
Clinical Trials Sites
Recent Industry News
Related Sites
Watch bioGeorgia Video Now! (YouTube)
Georgia’s strong collaborative community of public, private, academic and non-profit partners gives our state a competitive edge when it comes to advancing innovation.
Industry Statistics and Georgia Government Links
Georgia Biosciences: Georgia provides a wide variety of statutory incentives, to help eligible businesses realize their goals. Sales and Use tax exemptions are available for awide range of companies. Many Georgia counties exempt up to 100 percent of manufacturer’s inventory under the local option Freeport law. Georgia is the first state to adopt a single factor sales tax rate that substantially reduces the corporate income tax for Georgia companies who deliver a larger portion of their products/services outside of Georgia.
Georgia.org: The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) is the state's sales and marketing arm and lead agency for attracting new business investment, encouraging the expansion of existing industry and small businesses, developing new domestic and international markets, attracting tourists to Georgia, and promoting the state.
Statistics about Georgia: Vital statistics about Georgia from the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
Statistics about Georgia Counties: GeorgiaFacts.net - the state's public-private web resource for economic development. This site is the result of a long standing partnership of Georgia businesses and the Department of Economic Development. This site provides an interactive database of available buildings, a list of foreign based companies with operations in the state, links to our existing industries and a host of other useful data.
Incubators
Georgia Centers of Innovation: Complete List of Business Incubators in Georgia (PDF)
UGA BioBusiness Center
GHSU Business Incubator
Augusta BioBusiness Center
ATDC at Georgia Tech - Forbes Lists ATDC Among World's Top Incubators
CollabTech - Georgia State Incubator
Emtech Biotechnology Development, Inc. (Emtech Bio, an Emory/Georgia Tech Partnership)
Life Science Business Development Center at GHSU: The business incubator at the Georgia Health Sciences University is the state's only Innovation Center devoted to the life sciences. Located in Augusta, it offers space, equipment and mentoring services for its tenants; an outreach program to assist entrepreneurs from all over the state, including rural Georgia; and matching grants when industry teams with a GHSU faculty member to work in translational research.
Georgia Research Alliance
Georgia Research Alliance (GRA)
GRA VentureLab
GRA Venture Lab – Funding Investment Levels
iResearch Georgia
New GRAVenture Fund
Venture Lab at Georgia Tech
Venture Lab at University of Georgia
Venture Lab at Emory
Other Important Resources in Georgia
Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC): MAC connects the business community to drive economic development and public policies that promote sustainable growth. Here are additional resources from the chamber:
Bioscience Knowledge Portal
Bioscience Company Address Locator
Notable Institutions in the Atlanta Technology Loop
Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute: The Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute is an inter-institutional magnet that concentrates basic, translational, and clinical investigators, community clinicians, professional societies, and industry collaborators in dynamic clinical and translational research projects.
Emory has engaged two of its close academic partners in metropolitan Atlanta -Morehouse School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology - to form the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI). Strategic translational initiatives of the ACTSI are highlighted by the work of the Yerkes Primate Center, the Neurosciences Center, Winship Cancer Center, Vaccine and Immunology Center, as well as Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine.
Clinical Trials Sites
Clinicaltrials.gov: ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. For additional information, please visit Clinical Trials in Georgia.
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Georgia has more than 300 bioscience companies that are diverse in size and scope. Their areas of expertise include pharma, biotech, medical devices, R&D, diagnostics, agbiotech and biofuels. |
Center for Oncology Research and Education (Georgia CORE): The Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education (Georgia CORE) is an independent, non-profit organization working to improve cancer care in Georgia by strengthening clinical research throughout the state. With the active engagement of Georgia oncologists, partnerships with the state’s four medical schools, funding from the Georgia Cancer Coalition and Emory Winship Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated cancer center, and the Georgia Society of Clinical Oncology (GASCO), Georgia CORE aims to improve the quality of cancer care in Georgia through clinical research.
Recent Industry News
• Atlanta Business Chronicle: Bioenergy's got buzz in Georgia
Related Sites:
Arthritis Foundation
American Cancer Society
CARE
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Emory Vaccine Center
Emory Winship Cancer Institute
Georgia Bio
Georgia Cancer Coalition
Georgia.org's Innovation Section
Georgia State Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design
Georgia Life Sciences Industry Analysis 2009
Georgia Research Alliance
Georgia State's Collabtech
GHSU Business Incubator & Life Sciences Innovation Center
iResearch Georgia
University System of Georgia