IMAGINE Greater Manchester as the home and hub for international leadership of a new industry with exponential growth potential. Imagine that this industry also has boundless capacity to help those with chronic disease and traumatic injury through the delivery of cells, tissues, and organs suitable for human transplant. While this may sound like science-fiction, biofabrication — the biomanufacture of cells, tissues, and organs — is becoming a reality in Manchester’s Millyard.

New Hampshire’s largest city is no stranger to innovation in manufacturing. Manchester was built on it. A century ago, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was one of the largest textile manufacturers in the world, drawing an international workforce that became synonymous with the tenacious roots of the city. Today, Manchester again leads in manufacturing ingenuity, recently heralded as “the next generation of innovation that America needs” by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.