Facilities and equipment
The EVCF operates in three fully equipped rooms dedicated to the manufacturing of viral vectors. The lab space features two biological laminar hoods, three cell culture incubators, and a full array of state-of-the art equipment for vector manufacture, quality control, and molecular biology work.
The EVCF’s special equipment includes:
- Microfluidizer
- Ultracentrifuge and table-top centrifuges
- AKTA Start chromatography system
- AKTA Flux Tangential Flow Filtration instrument
- qPCR instrument, gel electrophoresis apparatus and digital gel imaging system
- Fluorescent microscope