Located in the nation’s second largest research park, Cummings Research Park, HudsonAlpha is the cornerstone of the 150-acre CRP Biotech Campus. The non-profit institute is housed in a state-of-the-art, 270,000 square-ft. facility and has a three-fold mission of conducting genomics-based research to improve human health and well being; sparking economic development; and providing educational outreach to nurture the next generation of biotech researchers and entrepreneurs, as well as to create a biotech literate public. The biotech campus hosts a synergistic cluster of biotechnology talent-- science and business professionals-- that promises collaborative innovation to turn knowledge and ideas into commercial products and services for improving human health and strengthening Alabama’s progressively diverse economy.