The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) is deftly preserving the past while shaping the future, helping to lead the revitalization of Manchester’s 19th-century mills (and fueling the region’s economy) while performing groundbreaking work in the regenerative manufacturing industry that will improve lives, particularly for injured U.S. soldiers and those living with debilitating health conditions.

UNH has long been a partner with ARMI, helping to drive the student and workforce pipeline. That partnership should continue to blossom thanks to a five-year, $44 million grant received by the city of Manchester under the Build Back Better Regional Challenge to further the establishment of the biofabrication manufacturing industry – UNH is an educational partners on the grant, which will support the UNH Manchester Biotechnology Innovation Center Incubator operations and a “Manchester CREATES” teacher training and student summer camp, among other initiatives.

“A big part of what we do is enable and support economic growth in the state, and the best way to do that is to get connected and really understand companies, institutions and nonprofits from every area so we can be most responsive to their needs,” Mike Decelle, dean of UNH Manchester, says. “We are right in the middle of the Manchester Millyard and in the middle of the city, so the fortune of the city in large part relies on how well we perform as a university to lift the community, to lift the businesses and to lift the overall economy.”