The Golden Ticket
Corporate partners select and sponsor promising young companies that align with their strategic and scientific interests. The winners receive a year of free lab space, direct partnership with their Golden Ticket sponsor and access to a network of opportunities. Oftentimes, the Golden Ticket helps launch a new company or a long-term strategic relationship.
Current Golden Ticket Opportunities
Previous Golden Ticket Winners
AbbVie Golden Ticket 2025 Winner
Qymune is the winner of the MBC BioLabs and 2025 AbbVie Golden Ticket, an initiative offering entrepreneurial innovators one year of free lab space at MBC BioLabs’ facility.
Eisai Innovation, Inc. Golden Ticket 2025 Winners
Serna Bio is the winner of the MBC BioLabs and 2025 Eisai Innovation, Inc. Golden Ticket, an initiative offering entrepreneurial innovators one year of free lab space at MBC BioLabs’ facility.
Bristol Myers Squibb Golden Ticket 2025 Winners
Seen Therapeutics and Cenos Therapeutics as the winners of their 2025 Golden Ticket Competition.
ONO Golden Ticket 2025 Winner
ResNovas Therapeutics is the winner of this year's ONO Golden Ticket!
2025 Astellas Future Innovator Prize Awarded to DeepSeq.AI & Serna Bio
The award, now in its sixth year, offers entrepreneurial scientists, emerging startups and small biotechs one-year priority usage of MBC BioLabs’ state-of-the-art lab facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as access to Astellas’ research and development capabilities and business leaders.
ONO Golden Ticket 2024 Winner
DeepSeq is the winner!