Our Clusters

At NC State, we address society’s grand challenges by bringing together top scholars from diverse backgrounds. In our clusters, faculty from across 10 colleges collaborate on research that yields results.

Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program Clusters

Strategic Clusters

Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

We focus on fundamental and applied research and education efforts on the screening, characterization and manufacturing of a wide range of biotherapeutics, from proteins to gene and cell therapies, to help improve their quality, purity, safety, potency, yield and accessibility.