Research and entrepreneurship are leading to a biotech boom in North Alabama, where the rapidly growing HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is constructing new facilities for cutting-edge research in genomics and plant science. In two new buildings—a greenhouse and research facility—nonprofit HudsonAlpha and contractor Brasfield & Gorrie are leaning on past relationships to navigate the process of creating tailor-made structures for highly specialized uses.
On either side of its double-helix walking trail built to resemble the structure of DNA, scientists and students on HudsonAlpha’s campus explore the genomes of people while biotech businesses push the state’s economy into the future.