Seattle

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Seattle region — University of Washington, Amazon, Microsoft R&D, Fred Hutch, Allen Institute, and the Puget Sound biotech ecosystem.

Minneapolis

Melan facilitates medical device and health-tech research partnerships across the Twin Cities — University of Minnesota, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Mayo Clinic, and the medtech capital of the world.

San Francisco Bay Area

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the San Francisco Bay Area — Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Silicon Valley deep-tech corporate R&D.

Research Triangle Park

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Research Triangle region — NC State, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and the RTP corporate research ecosystem.

New York City

Melan facilitates research partnerships across New York City — Columbia, NYU, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and the growing life sciences and AI R&D ecosystem.

Irvine

Melan facilitates medtech, biopharma, and health-tech research partnerships across Orange County — UC Irvine, Edwards Lifesciences, Masimo, and Southern California’s device innovation ecosystem.

Los Angeles

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Los Angeles region — Caltech, JPL, UCLA, USC, and the aerospace and climate technology research ecosystem.

Pasadena

Melan facilitates quantum, space, and deep-tech research partnerships in Pasadena — Caltech, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the frontier of fundamental science and space exploration.

London

Melan facilitates research partnerships across London — Imperial College, UCL, the Francis Crick Institute, and the UK’s leading corporate R&D ecosystem.

Denver & Boulder

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Denver/Boulder Front Range — CU Boulder, NIST, NREL, and the Rocky Mountain climate technology ecosystem.

San Diego

Melan facilitates biotech and biomedical research partnerships across San Diego — UCSD, Scripps Research, Salk Institute, Illumina, and the Torrey Pines discovery ecosystem.

Chicago

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Chicago region — UChicago, Northwestern, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Midwest’s growing deep-tech ecosystem.

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