Gov. Kay Ivey visits Huntsville for important HudsonAlpha ceremony

gov. kay ivey, governor — Gov. Kay Ivey spoke to HudsonAlpha leaders at the Discovery Life Sciences global headquarters ribbon cutting. (Audrey Johnson / Hville Blast)

Gov. Kay Ivey visited Huntsville to celebrate the opening of Discovery Life Sciences new global headquarters. The 93,000-square-foot building is the newest addition to the HudsonAlpha Institute’s biotech campus.

“This is one of the few global headquarters located in Huntsville and Alabama and we couldn’t be more proud to count them as part of the HudsonAlpha campus. It’s especially exciting since the origins of Discovery Life Sciences lead back to one of HudsonAlpha’s original associate companies in 2008.”
Neil Lamb, PhD, HudsonAlpha President

About Discovery Life Science’s new facility

HudsonAlpha, discovery life sciences, gov. kay ivey, mayor tommy battle, governor — Gov. Kay Ivey cut the ribbon for the ceremony. (Audrey Johnson / Hville Blast)

The facility will house one of the world’s most extensive commercial biospecimen inventories and offer services like genomics, proteomics (the study of proteins), molecular pathology, flow cytometry and cell biology.

Discovery has already relocated 115 jobs to Alabama since 2022 and will continue to develop in Alabama. The State of Alabama, Madison County and the City of Huntsville funded the facility.

“When Discovery chose the HudsonAlpha Biotech Campus in Huntsville for its global headquarters, I knew this was a milestone moment for Alabama as we work to recruit other life science companies to the state.”
Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey

Besides Gov. Kay Ivey, who were the featured speakers?

mayor tommy battle, hudsonalpha — Mayor of Huntsville Tommy Battle spoke at the event. (Audrey Johnson / Hville Blast)

Gov. Kay Ivey was not the only speaker at the event: Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle also provided commentary.

Guests also heard from HudsonAlpha president Neil Lamb, chair-elect of the Huntsville/Madison Chamber of Commerce and president/CEO of CFD research Sameer Singhal, chairman of the Madison County Commission Mac McCutcheon, CEO of Discovery Life Sciences Glenn Bilawsky, co-founder and chairman emeritus of HudsonAlpha Jim Hudson.

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