The UNCW Crest Research Park facility is designed to encourage open and frequent communication between the park's public and private researchers.
UNCW Crest Research Park facility provides features such as a shared cafeteria and coffee nook, the open campus and common public spaces will allow frequent opportunities for informal and formal collaboration and cooperation to help build relationships, form new ideas and solve problems.
UNCW Crest Research Park tenants will have access to more than than 80 established researchers from MARBIONC and UNC Wilmington's Basic Science departments with wide-ranging specialties including aquaculture and mariculture development, natural product research, the business of biotechnology, and the development of pharmaceuticals from marine species.