Life Sciences & Health Innovation Hub at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute
Lab space, startup support, expert project support, AI and data training for your teams, a healthcare workforce pipeline, and a network of founders and partners. Work with us from wherever you are.
The Maine Technology Institute selected the Roux Institute to develop a shared life sciences lab on its new Portland campus, now under construction. Join the interest list
How the hub works
Tell us what you’re working on and we’ll pull in whichever of these it needs: lab work, AI, founders, people, training, or faculty research. You don’t have to know which one before you call.
Connected by the hub community
Faculty-led research in genomics, bioinformatics, epidemic modeling, health AI, and biotechnology, with collaborators across Northeastern University and beyond.
BioCoLab: shared wet lab equipment, trained staff, and contract research, without building your own facility. A larger shared lab is coming to our new Portland campus.
The AI Solutions Hub scopes, prototypes, validates, and builds AI tools around your data and workflows.
The Founder Residency and Roux Incubator membership: mentors, investor and industry introductions, research collaboration, and a startup community.
Help close healthcare workforce shortages: the Gap Year Program places recent graduates in healthcare roles across Maine. Plus graduate co-op students and Working Lab teams inside your organization.
Live, role-based AI training for your teams, and graduate degrees for people building life sciences careers.
Research and ideas
If one of these overlaps with your work, that’s a conversation worth having. Preprints are marked and haven’t yet been peer reviewed.
Samuel Scarpino, co-editor
Code Red, a 2026 report from PATH and Northeastern University, edited with Prof. Dame Sally Davies and others after an international convening at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.
Samuel Scarpino, co-author
Nature, 2025
Paper: Can AI forecast the next epidemic before it starts? (opens in new tab) Story: Can AI forecast the next epidemic before it starts? (opens in new tab)
EPISTORM, with Samuel Scarpino among its leaders
A $17.5 million CDC-funded center led by Northeastern University
Story: Can hospitals get a weather forecast for outbreaks? (opens in new tab)
Samuel Scarpino, co-author
The Lancet Global Health, 43-country survey
Story: Can wastewater give countries an early warning system? (opens in new tab)
Eugene Tunik
Partnership with Santovia Path AI and Prima CARE
Story: Can AI speed up cancer diagnosis in community practice? (opens in new tab)
Eugene Tunik
AI for clinical decision-making in home hospital programs
Story: Can AI support hospital-at-home care? (opens in new tab)
Ayan Paul, co-author
bioRxiv, 2026, with Brigham and Women’s Hospital collaborators
Christine Lary, co-author
medRxiv, 2025, using Stanford Medicine data
Preprint: Can health records flag amputation risk in peripheral artery disease? (opens in new tab)
Michael Wilczek, co-author
medRxiv, 2025, using All of Us data
Christopher Okonkwo, guest editor
Bioengineering special issue
Find your way in
You don’t have to fit neatly into one. If none sounds quite right, tell us what you need and we’ll find the fit.
Where we focus
Across all five, we partner with companies to co-develop solutions and bring them into use.
BioCoLab gives you shared wet lab equipment, trained staff, and contract research without the cost of building a lab. For bigger questions, sponsored research puts Northeastern University faculty on your problem.
From our work: More than a dozen companies now use BioCoLab’s space and services. That demand is why the Maine Technology Institute chose the Roux Institute to build a larger shared lab on its new Portland campus.
When the bottleneck is the documents, data, and reporting around the science, our applied AI team and graduate talent build tools your experts will use.
From our work: With The Jackson Laboratory’s Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative, Northeastern University automated intake document processing and tumor board summaries. Minutes are now ready in under 25 minutes instead of days, at 99.8% lower cost per minute.
Your support builds new lab space, workforce programs, startups, and convenings that put founders, clinicians, researchers, and investors in one room.
From our work: Northern Light Health sponsored the hub’s health-focused founder residency. That relationship led to a pilot bringing telehealth nutrition care to its maternity patients.
We help health systems, hospitals, and rural providers bring motivated graduates into clinical roles, build their teams’ skills, document gaps in care, and work with Northeastern University faculty and hub startups on what their patients need.
From our work: EPISTORM, a CDC-funded center led by Northeastern University, builds forecasting models to help hospitals prepare for outbreaks, with rural communities a top priority. And at Northern Light Women’s Health, hub startup Mother of Fact delivered 132 referrals and 122 telehealth nutrition sessions to maternity patients in six months.
About EPISTORM (opens in new tab) Read the Mother of Fact story (opens in new tab)
Work with our computational health researchers and applied AI team to turn scattered data into infrastructure for chronic disease and population health.
From our work: Apriqot, a public health analytics company, found clients, co-op talent, and community at the Roux Institute after moving to Maine.
Co-author studies, pursue joint grants, use shared lab infrastructure, or mentor and advise hub startups.
From our work: Christine Lary and The Jackson Laboratory have built a research consortium with Northern Light Acadia Hospital and the University of Maine that pairs human and mouse studies.
Join the Founder Residency or the Roux Incubator to work alongside mentors, industry partners, and Northeastern University’s applied AI team.
Virtual membership
$100 a month
Co-working membership
$300 a month
Roux Incubator by the numbers: 145+ startups supported, 350+ mentors and experts, and $145M+ in capital raised. Compare memberships (opens in new tab)
From our work: Radiolife validated its clinical-grade diagnostic platform with the AI Solutions Hub, cutting arbovirus detection from 60 seconds to 30.
Spend a paid year in a Maine healthcare role, earn a graduate degree in Portland, or gain experience through co-op with partner organizations.
From our work: The Gap Year Program’s first cohort placed 23 graduates in entry-level healthcare roles across Maine.
Plenty of people work with the hub in ways that don’t fit a single description. Tell us what you’re working on and we’ll connect you with the right people.
Looking for the full list? See every way to engage with the hub (opens in new tab)
Rural health in Maine
Maine is the most rural state in the country, and through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, the state is investing in new ways to deliver care.
The State of Maine selected Northeastern University’s Roux Institute to help design and deliver programming that supports sustainable transformation for rural hospitals and communities.
Looking for RHTP technology and innovation funding? Maine DHHS offers it through MCD Global Health, separately from the hub. Check out funding opportunities here (opens in new tab).
People
The scientists, AI researchers, clinicians, and operators who would scope, staff, and advise your work. Filter by the need you have. When your project needs more, we bring in faculty and researchers from across Northeastern University’s global network of campuses.
Get involved
Join the founders, clinicians, researchers, companies, and funders building Maine’s life sciences and health economy.
The hub’s goals for 2030. Help us get there.
“Rooted in Maine, connected to a global university network. The hub supports every stage of innovation, from a researcher’s discovery or a student’s first idea to a scaling startup and the industry partnerships that bring new solutions to life.”
Join the health systems, companies, research institutions, and funders already working with the hub, and we’ll connect you to the people, programs, and events that fit your goals.
November 12 and 13, 2026, at the Roux Institute
Founders, clinicians, investors, and operators from across the region, co-hosted by the hub.
Throughout the year
Tour BioCoLab, hear from founders building at the hub, and get invites to small industry briefings.
Share regulatory, clinical, investing, or operating experience with early-stage health founders.
For faculty and researchers at other institutions who want to work with Northeastern University teams on shared questions.
Founder and partner stories, new programs, and event news from across the hub.
Already in the network
Tell us what you’re working on
Check everything you want to know more about, even if you’re not sure yet. The hub team will follow up on what you pick.
Ready to talk about AI now? Book with the AI Solutions Hub (opens in new tab)
Planning team training? Book with the custom learning team (opens in new tab)
Need lab time? Apply for BioCoLab membership (opens in new tab)