Amenities

Amenities in the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center of Bucks County are state-of-the-art and designed for use by nonprofit research organizations and commercial biotech start up companies. This list provides a general overview of available amenities.

Business & Entrepreneurial Services
  • Promotion with venture capital/angels
  • Special events to promote companies
  • Weekly scientific and business seminars
  • Rooms for small team meetings
  • Space for up to 100 seated attendees
  • Professional conference affiliation (PACT, NBIA, Life Sciences Pennsylvania, etc.)
  • Grant assistance
  • Legal consultation on site
  • Consultants

 

Lab Amenities Provided
  • CO2 (PABC will deliver and install)
  • N2 Nitrogen (PABC will deliver and install)
  • Other Gases on contract
  • BioSafety Cabinets (as available)
  • Chemical Fume Hood
  • Acid/Flammable Storage under CFH
  • DI Water
  • Eyewash
  • Onsite lab supplies for purchase

 

Equipment/Services (Fee)
  • Biowaste & Chemical waste disposal
  • Flow Cytometer (3)
  • Freezer -80
  • Freezer Room -20
  • Liquid Nitrogen freezer (2)
  • Lyopilzer
  • Mass Spectrometer
  • Multiplexer
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonator
  • Olympus Microscope (Requires training)
Common Equipment
  • Benchtop centrifuge
  • Benchtop Incubator shakers (3)
  • Biosafety cabinet (if available)
  • Cellcounter
  • Chest freezer -86
  • CO2 incubator (2) (if available)
  • Cold room
  • Film processor/dark room
  • Glasswasher (3)
  • Ice Machine (2)
  • Kuhner incubator shaker cabinet (3)
  • Lab scale
  • Liquid Scintillation Counter (2)
  • Myspin mini centrifuge
  • Nanodrop
  • Ph reader
  • Plate reader (absorbance only)
  • Plate reader (in teaching lab)
  • Plate shaker
  • Precision incubator
  • Refrigerator
  • Rotating mixer
  • Super Speed Centrifuge
  • Top load incubator shaker
  • Under-the-counter freezer
  • Video conferencing endpoint
  • Vortex mixer
  • Water Bath (2) 

 

Services Provided
  • Initial Online Safety Training
  • Routine Safety Inspections
  • Minor Equipment Repair
  • IT Support
  • Package Support
Common Equipment (use by request)
  • Automated PCR
  • freezer Dryer
  • Lightcycler 480 II
  • Liquid Chromatographs
  • Liquid Handling Robot
  • Realtime PCR
  • Rotavap
  • Tecan plate reader (trainingrequired)

 

Common Equipment (training required)
  • Autoclave
  • Evos microscope
  • Ibright imaging system
  • qPCR
  • UltraCentrfige X2

 

General Amenities Provided
  • Wet Ice & Dry Ice
  • Natural Gas
  • Vacuum
  • Emergency Power
  • Lab Coats