British Columbia's Biomanufacturing Training Facility

The modern pilot-scale bioprocessing equipment at the B.C. CASTL Biomanufacturing Training Facility enables trainees to acquire useful skills that are instantly applicable to the processes and workflows involved in biomanufacturing. The facility is furnished with labs and a classroom designed to provide the best possible biomanufacturing training. The facility replicates the manufacturing methods used to produce vaccinations, viral vectors, monoclonal antibodies, and other cGMP biopharmaceutical products.

Located at the BCIT Aerospace Technology Campus in Vancouver

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BC Training Facility Equipment List

Equipement
  • 200L single-use stirred tank bioreactors
  • 20L/50L rocking motion bioreactors
  • Cell therapy manufacturing platforms (CliniMACS Prodigy)
  • MACSQuant analyzer
  • Cedex media and metabolite analyzer
  • Tangential flow filtration (TFF) System, (Akta ReadyFlux)
  • Chromatography Skid (Akta Pilot 600S)
  • Lipid Nanoparticle Encapsulation Device (Ignite)
  • Automated cell counters