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Partnerships Your Innovations Go Further With Addgene

Over the past two decades, more than 300,000 scientists around the world have relied on Addgene, a trusted nonprofit organization. Partner with us to distribute, produce, and scale your innovations with the quality and global reach your work deserves. Our scientists work alongside your team as true thought partners.

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GLOBAL Reach | HIGH Impact

When your innovation joins Addgene, it reaches labs on six continents, with proven impact.

  • Countries reached
  • Distribution partners
2.5M+
materials distributed
180,000+
materials from 7,000+ labs
175,000+
citations in published research
4,500+
granted patents referencing Addgene

Types of Partnerships

Whether you develop research tools, produce materials, fund research, or build data platforms, there's a way to partner with Addgene.

Innovation Partners

For companies and institutions that develop research tools, and for technology partners who help us serve researchers better.

  • Catalog listing, ordering, fulfillment, and international shipping, all handled by Addgene
  • Collaborations that improve the quality and affordability of research materials
  • Scientific thought partnership and educational content from our expert staff to drive adoption of your tools

Production & Services Partners

For companies and institutions that want to produce or scale research materials with Addgene.

  • Viral vector production, with 1,050+ in-stock preparations and 4,000+ available on demand
  • Recombinant antibody collaborations, with 250+ antibodies generated by Addgene and our partners
  • Authenticated, quality-controlled materials verified by whole plasmid sequencing

Foundation & Agency Partners

For foundations, government agencies, and consortia that want tools from funded research to reach the scientific community.

  • Global access to the tools your programs fund, reaching 300,000+ scientists in 100+ countries
  • Curated collections that keep a program’s tools together and easy to find, like those from the BRAIN Initiative and the Michael J. Fox Foundation
  • A trusted nonprofit partner with a shared mission: reducing barriers to discovery

Data & Informatics Partners

For organizations that make research data more accessible, transparent, and reliable by building on Addgene’s curated data or sharing datasets with the research community.

  • Integration of curated plasmid and sequence data through the Developers Portal API
  • Dataset sharing with the research community through the Data Hub
  • Data licensing for research platforms and tools

Who We Partner With

Companies, research institutions, and nonprofits partner with Addgene to put their innovations in researchers’ hands worldwide.

Plus 1,400+ universities and research institutions around the world.

Read our latest partnership announcements

Why Partner With Addgene

Researchers trust Addgene with the materials their work depends on. When your innovation joins Addgene, it carries that same trust.

  • Trusted Partner
    As a nonprofit repository, Addgene has earned the scientific community's trust over two decades. We share high-quality research materials at affordable prices to reduce barriers to discovery.
  • Sharing at Scale
    Our systems handle ordering, quality control, fulfillment, and international shipping at scale, so your tools reach researchers around the world quickly and reliably.
  • Quality Tools
    Materials in our collection come from labs at leading universities, research institutes, and companies, often backed by publications. We verify plasmids with whole plasmid sequencing and share detailed characterization data for all materials.
  • Scientific Thought Partner
    Our scientists work alongside you and curate the information researchers need to use your tools well, answering their questions from first order to published results.

Together, we empower scientists and advance discovery

Tell us about your research tools, technology, data platform, or the programs you fund, and our team will follow up.

Become a Partner