The Citizen Science Lab

The Citizen Science Lab is a Pittsburgh-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates community laboratory spaces focused on hands-on life sciences and STEM education. Rather than developing therapeutics, it provides laboratory-based programs, camps, workshops, educator training, and community outreach designed to build science literacy and create pathways into STEM careers, especially for diverse and marginalized communities. Its programming spans biology, microbiology, chemistry, robotics, engineering, coding, and synthetic biology. The organization runs sites in Pittsburgh's Hill District and South Hills and has been active since the mid-2010s. For a biotech analyst, this is best understood as a mission-driven community life-science education organization rather than a drug-development biotech company.