IQHQ Announces Early Lease Renewal and Extension with Generate:Biomedicines
28 Enero 2025 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Generate:Biomedicines makes long-term
commitment to pioneer programmable biology at IQHQ’s Innovation
Park, home to its cutting-edge CryoEM laboratory
IQHQ, Inc. (“IQHQ” or “the Company”), a premier owner and
developer of world-class life science districts, today announced
that it has entered into an early lease renewal and long-term
extension with Generate:Biomedicines (“Generate”), a pioneer in the
field of generative biology, at IQHQ’s Innovation Park life science
district in Andover, Massachusetts. IQHQ acquired the Innovation
Park campus between 2020 and 2021 and developed it into a
world-class life science hub that provides leading biotechnology
and life science manufacturing companies in the greater Boston
market with sophisticated, high-end infrastructure and a flexible
layout.
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4 Corporate Drive at IQHQ’s Innovation
Park district. Courtesy of IQHQ
Generate sits at the intersection of machine learning,
biological engineering, and medicine and is advancing a new era of
programmable biology to more quickly engineer better medicines for
patients. The Generate Platform’s infusion of technology into
biology allows the company to address historically undruggable and
hard-to-drug targets as well as known targets in new and more
effective ways.
Innovation Park houses Generate’s 75,000 square foot,
state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy (“CryoEM”)
laboratory, one of the largest laboratories of its type in the
United States. Generate’s CryoEM laboratory is equipped with four
state-of-the-art microscopes that provide detailed molecular
visualization and produce terabytes of data daily, enriching The
Generate Platform and enabling advancements in therapeutic design
and discovery.
"We are proud that Generate:Biomedicines, a global leader in
generative biology, has made a long-term commitment at IQHQ’s
Innovation Park district to accelerate breakthroughs in therapeutic
discovery and development at their cutting-edge CryoEM laboratory,”
said Tracy Murphy, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of IQHQ. "We continue to
deliver on our mission of providing best-in-class ecosystems of
innovation and progress for leading companies across the life
science sector, and we look forward to Generate’s continued success
at Innovation Park.”
This successful transaction comes on the heels of the Company’s
recently announced $900 million in capital that was raised in 2024
to drive continued momentum for IQHQ’s business. The capital raise
puts the Company in a strong position to capture opportunities as
the life science market continues to improve, with leading
companies showing a clear preference for premier assets in core
markets.
About IQHQ
IQHQ is Giving Progress a Home™, empowering the life science
community to thrive by creating and developing districts that
inspire innovation and drive growth. IQHQ’s focus is to acquire,
develop, and operate sustainable life science districts in the U.S.
innovation hubs of San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston. To learn
more, visit iqhqreit.com or follow IQHQ on LinkedIn or
Instagram.
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