ReadyStart CleanRooms

Our Facilities

The cGMP area consists of 10 separate manufacturing suites along with a Cryo-Storage room and a QC Test Lab with a layout that enables unidirectional personnel, material, and waste flow. All rooms are ISO7 certified per ISO 14644. Real time environmental monitoring of particle counts, temperature, and humidity is installed throughout the cGMP facility.

Our facility, located in the Greater Sacramento Area, is over 35,000sqft and contains over 6,000sqft of cGMP space, over 2,000sqft of wet lab space that includes fully equipped cell culture rooms, along with meeting rooms, private offices, shared workspace, and warehousing. As part of the service, the ReadyStart Team takes care of facility and equipment certifications, testing, maintenance, and calibration. It is an ideal environment for the growth and expansion of the biotechnology eco system. The facilities and services enable companies to ease into their business by allowing them to focus on their science and technology, while reducing capital risks, and increasing speed to market.

cGMP Cleanrooms

The ReadyStart Cleanrooms by ThermoGenesis are located in the Greater Sacramento area. The ReadyStart Cleanrooms provide over 6,000ft2 of licensable/leasable cGMP compliant ISO 7 Cleanrooms consisting of 11 private lab spaces. Each private lab space will come equipped with 2-6ft Biosafety Cabinets, 2-160L Incubators, and a Centrifuge. Shared cold and cryo storage space is also available. The entire facility is over 35,000ft2 with shared and private offices, cubicles, meeting rooms, and warehousing available.

Each Cleanroom Suite will come equipped with:

  • Two - 6ft Thermo Scientific™ 1300 Series Class II, Type A2 Biological Safety Cabinet

    • Vacuum pumps available for Biosafety Cabinets

  • Two - Thermo Scientific Heracell Incubator 160i VIOS 5.8-cu ft | 165L

    • Supplied with CO2 and N2

    • Each suite can support up to 8 incubators (fees for additional incubators may apply)

  • Thermo Fisher Sorvall™ Legend™ Centrifuge with 4 bucket rotor, 750mL buckets

  • Microscope, if needed

Included:

  • PPE - Lab Gowns, Gloves, Goggles - Let us know your requirements!

  • Basic laboratory consumables

  • Access to wet labs upon reservation, if available

  • Co-working area

Facility will come with shared equipment listed below:

  • 200L Steam Autoclave

  • Labware Washer

  • Freezers and Refrigerators:

    • -86∘C, -30∘C, 4∘C

  • Cryogenic storage

  • Control Rate Freezer

Additional services available:

  • Flow Cytometry with Beckman Coulter CytoFlex

  • Cell Counting, Viability, Sizing, Differentiation

  • PCR

  • We can help coordinate additional services or procurement with 3rd party suppliers

  • ThermoGenesis AXP and PXP Cell Processing equipment (ask for a demo)