Facilities & Services

Open Space at the PABC!

Exciting news from the PABC! We have rare openings for lab and office space. It’s a unique opportunity for biotech, pharma, veterinary, agricultural, AI, digital and life sciences companies looking to grow in a top-tier incubator and accelerator. Why the PABC?.

✔ State-of-the-art lab and office space the region’s premier biotech hub,

✔ Unmatched access to funding, mentorship and industry connections,

✔ A thriving community of biotech entrepreneurs, investors and experts,

✔ Proven track record of accelerating biotech success.

These spaces are first-come, first-served and won’t last long!

Interested? Contact Loretta Molle at Loretta.molle@pabiocenter.org today to learn more.

Amenities

Amenities in the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center 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.

Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center Strategic Partners

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
IT_technology

Services Provided

  • Initial Online Safety Training
  • Routine Safety Inspections
  • Minor Equipment Repair
  • IT Support
  • Package Support
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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
PABC centrifuge

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) 
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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)
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Common Equipment (use by request)

  • Automated PCR
  • freezer Dryer
  • Lightcycler 480 II
  • Liquid Chromatographs
  • Liquid Handling Robot
  • Realtime PCR
  • Rotavap
Evos-microscope

Common Equipment (training required)

  • Autoclave
  • Evos microscope
  • Ibright imaging system
  • qPCR
  • UltraCentrfige X2
Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center Scientists

General Amenities Provided

  • Wet Ice & Dry Ice
  • Natural Gas
  • Vacuum
  • Emergency Power
  • Lab Coats
Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center Strategic Partners

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
IT_technology

Services Provided

  • Initial Online Safety Training
  • Routine Safety Inspections
  • Minor Equipment Repair
  • IT Support
  • Package Support
Evos-microscope

Common Equipment (training required)

  • Autoclave
  • Evos microscope
  • Ibright imaging system
  • qPCR
  • UltraCentrfige X2
Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center Scientists

General Amenities Provided

  • Wet Ice & Dry Ice
  • Natural Gas
  • Vacuum
  • Emergency Power
  • Lab Coats
pennsylvania-biotechnology-center-gas-cylinders

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
PABC centrifuge

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) 
BU-R300-2

Common Equipment (use by request)

  • Automated PCR
  • freezer Dryer
  • Lightcycler 480 II
  • Liquid Chromatographs
  • Liquid Handling Robot
  • Realtime PCR
  • Rotavap
  • Tecan plate reader (trainingrequired)
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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)

Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ)

The PABC is a designated Keystone Innovation Zone of the Pennsylvania Department of Community Development. KIZ is an incentive program that provides tax credits to for-profit companies less than eight years old operating within specific targeted industries of life science research & development within the boundaries of a KIZ.

See if your company qualifies here, and if you are interested in participating, contact Judith.Marchand@bblumberg.org for more information.

Privacy & SMS Text Messaging Policy

The Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center and the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute we collect limited personal information such as your name, contact details, role, and information about your interactions with our programs and facilities. We use this information to operate our organization, including scheduling meetings and events, providing facility and IT support, and meeting legal or safety requirements.

If you provide your mobile number and consent to receive SMS messages, we may send operational and service-related texts (for example, schedule or meeting updates, IT support notifications, and facility or safety alerts). We do not send marketing or promotional SMS campaigns. Message frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. You can opt out of SMS at any time by replying STOP to a message. You can reply HELP for more information.

We do not sell or share your mobile phone contact information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. We may share information with service providers that support our communications and operations, or as required by law, and we require them to protect it and use it only to provide services to us.

You may contact us to update your contact details or ask questions about this notice or our handling of personal information. To do so, please contact us at (215) 589-6300 or info@pabiocenter.org.