UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISE LABORATORIES INC
To support early-stage life science and complementary technology ventures by providing premier laboratory facilities, shared scientific equipment, and an ecosystem of business and technical resources that enable innovation, growth, and commercial success.
About UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISE LABORATORIES INC
University Enterprise Laboratories (UEL) is a nonprofit life-science incubator in Saint Paul, Minnesota that provides ready-to-use wet lab and office space, shared equipment, and business support to early-stage biotech and related technology companies. UEL was created as a public–private partnership to bridge university research and startup commercialization, and it operates as an independent 501(c)(3) organization focused on growing Minnesota’s life-science ecosystem. In recent years UEL has continued to expand its physical capacity and programmatic partnerships, including a facility expansion completed in the late 2010s and participation in federal accelerator programs supporting medical countermeasure and health-security startups. Recent Form 990 filings indicate annual program revenues in the low millions and net assets in the multimillion-dollar range, reflecting ongoing operation as an active, donor-facing incubator.
Notable achievements
Facility opening and wet-lab capacity
Opened a 125,000 sq. ft. incubator in 2005 that includes multiple ready-to-use wet lab suites (21 wet labs at opening) to house and scale early-stage life-science companies.
Building expansion
Completed a nearly 20,000 sq. ft. addition (groundbroken 2018) to increase available lab and support space for resident companies and program growth.
Federal accelerator partnership (BARDA DRIVe)
Served as a regional partner in the BARDA DRIVe accelerator network, expanding support for health-security, medtech, and biotech startups through accelerator programming and connections to investors and federal partners.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $21.1M
- Annual revenue
- $4.5M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 41-2093194
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN
- Website
- www.uelmn.org
- On Mahalo since
- September 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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