Located on 15th Street between the RPI Playhouse and Academy Hall, this 218,000 square-foot facility houses a community of world-class researchers utilizing the most advanced facilities and infrastructure to conduct groundbreaking, interdisciplinary, biotechnology-based research and workforce development.

Since its opening in 2004, the facility has made an indelible imprint on the world. CBIS researchers have developed high-tech, high-throughput methods to identify drug toxicities; devised inventive ways to synthesize the complex molecules of life; discovered how bacterial communities resist and become resistant to antibiotics; described how mistakes in protein folding occur; and advanced the methods and materials with which to grow human tissue.

As a result of the center's focus on both fundamental and applied research in biotechnology, new tools are being developed to delve into and better understand biology and ultimately to design new products and processes that will address key challenges and opportunities.