The COVID-19 pandemic forced pharmaceutical research laboratories to do more with less even amid the relentless demand for new therapeutic agents. Now, life science researchers and vendors are contemplating how best to guarantee safety and quality as some of these changes become permanent and they continue to accelerate transformational initiatives.

R&D Laboratories of the future will need to be more adoptive and agile by connecting all documentation software and working equipment. The future laboratory will be a better connected laboratory both internally and well as externally with other outside collaborative laboratories. A shrinking workforce will also require a more connected laboratory as well as cross-trained laboratory technicians to improve efficiency.