In 2014, the Institute for Applied Life Sciences ﾠ(IALS) was founded at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a total investment of more than $150 million from the Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The IALS translate fundamental research into innovative product candidates, technologies, and services that deliver benefits to human health and well-being. IALS has has more than 30 Core Facilities – that facilitate a wide range of projects, from device prototyping, precision manufacturing and roll-to-roll fabrication, to human motion and gait studies, calorimetry, magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, as well as, EEG and sleep studies.