Bridging the gap between discovery and cure.
Translating brilliant science into approved cures and devices is one of biomedical science’ hardest problems. Compliance, regulatory demands, and fragmented funding often stretch timelines by years. MXBio is designed to compress that timeline without sacrificing rigor. By fusing advanced supercomputing, clinical research, and venture capital, we move brilliant discoveries from lab to patient, faster.
Founded in 1817 to serve the public good, the University of Michigan is home to one of the world’s most comprehensive research ecosystems. For over 200 years, the communities we serve have inspired us to push the boundaries of what is possible, turning breakthrough ideas into life-saving realities.
A New Standard for Health Innovation.
Solving grand societal health challenges demands a fundamental shift in how medicine is built. MXBio integrates world-class engineering, health sciences, and Michigan Medicine’s clinical scale - under one roof, paired with an in-house Innovation Engine. By embedding domain expertise directly alongside faculty founders in the lab, we will provide the flexible capital and entrepreneurial leadership needed to scale discoveries.
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Institutional Leadership
Unit X is a high-level presidential priority at the University of Michigan, designed to drive transformational impact across our institution and beyond. The initiative is governed directly by a board that unites U-M’s executive leadership:
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Our Team
Unit X is driven by an agile, elite core team - a group of multidisciplinary experts dedicated to shaping the institute's vision, operations, and translational strategy from the ground up. As our momentum grows, our team will continue to expand.
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External Scientific Advisory Board
We are actively assembling an External Scientific Advisory Board (ESAB), made of exceptional leaders in basic science, biomedical engineering, computational science, clinical translation, institute-building, and biotech venture creation.
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Working Group
The MXBio Working Group brings together domain experts and cross-campus leadership to provide strategic guidance, technical expertise, and actionable insight as MXBio expands its reach, capabilities, and impact.
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Join the Team
Build Your Legacy, Unconstrained. We are actively recruiting 10 to 15 world-renowned, HHMI-level scientific leaders to establish major research platforms within our ecosystem.