Unlike many of its peers in the startup scene, Forge Biologics is growing.
The gene therapy company today employs 320, the bulk of whom work out of its Grove City headquarters. The ultimate goal is a team of at least 400 people.
As part of an effort to accommodate that growth, the company recently completed a 27,000-square-foot expansion of its facility, bringing the total footprint to more than 200,000 square feet.
The project entailed ripping out a front wall of the former warehouse to build a two-story glass office, an effort to "create the creature comfort spaces we need to have 400, 500 people," co-founder and COO Jaysson Eicholtz said in a recent interview.
Columbus Inno recently took readers inside the manufacturing side of the operation, but now we're offering a look at the office space. Check it out in the slideshow below:
Forge Biologics
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About Forge Biologics: Founded in 2020 by biotech veterans, including from successfully acquired gene therapy companies, Forge is developing proprietary treatments for rare inherited diseases. The first one going through the U.S. and European regulatory process delivers a copy of the missing gene in Krabbe disease, an enzyme deficiency usually fatal by age 2. Instead, infants treated over a year ago in the study are showing normal muscle and brain development. Even before it gets a treatment on the market, Forge makes revenue through manufacturing: growing the biological components used in gene therapies, filling a critical shortage in the growing regenerative medicine industry.
About the contest: Throughout the month of March, Columbus Inno will run slideshows of local offices, in the hunt for the region's coolest. At the end of the month, we'll hold a vote to determine our winner.
