# Episode 267 | Michelle Ottey, President of CIC Campuses & Labs | Strategic Growth & Community Building in Innovation Spaces

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Podcast: [Project Medtech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/project-medtech-601743)
Published: 2026-06-29T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, Michelle Ottey, President of CIC Campuses and Labs, unpacks what it really takes to build thriving innovation ecosystems and why flexible lab space is only the beginning. Michelle shares her personal journey from genetics and cell biology research into enabling entrepreneurship, and explains how CIC’s “invisible infrastructure” helps life science and medtech founders move faster by reducing operational, regulatory, and capital burdens through plug-and-play wet labs, shared equipment, safety and compliance support, and a deeply staffed community model. The conversation highlights how CIC strategically launches campuses through years of local ecosystem buy-in, why programming and connection points matter as much as square footage, and how CIC’s global footprint helps companies navigate international expansion and business culture. Michelle Ottey LinkedIn CIC Philadelphia Website Duane Mancini LinkedIn Project Medtech Website Project Medtech LinkedIn Thank you to our sponsors: Ward Law and JumpStart Inc .

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