Facilities and Equipment
NCTM offers a variety of well-equipped laboratory spaces across two locations for on-site training and applied research.
NCTM — College Station Facility
NCTM’s flagship facility is located at Texas A&M University in College Station. It features bench-to-pilot scale bioprocess and analytical equipment for hands-on training in upstream processing, downstream processing, cell culture, aseptic technique, and bioanalytical methods. The facility serves as the hub for NCTM’s instructor-led courses, custom training and applied research activities.
Cell Culture Suite
- Cytiva Xcellerex XDR 50 single-use bioreactor (50L)
- Labconco Class II, Type A2 biosafety cabinets
- New Brunswick Galaxy® 170 S CO2 incubators
- PBS Biotech PBS 3 MAG spinning wheel bioreactor
- Sartorius BIOSTAT® RM50 rocking motion bioreactor
- Eppendorf BioFlo® 320 bioreactor with 14L vessel
- Nova Biomedical FLEX2 bioanalyzer and automated cell counter
- Beckman Coulter ViCELL BLU automated cell counter
- Eppendorf epMotion 5073 automated liquid handler
- Olympus IX53 inverted fluorescence microscope with camera
Microbial Fermentation and Recovery Suite
- New Brunswick BioFlo® 610 stainless steel 125L bioreactor
- Eppendorf BioFlo® 320 fermentors with 5L and 14L vessels
- SaniMatic UltraFlo 45 CIP skid
- Microfluidics M-110P homogenizer
- GEA Lab Homogenizer Panther 3006
- Beckman Coulter Avanti high speed floor centrifuges
- GEA Westfalia Separator disc stack centrifuge
- STERIS® AMSCO® 250LS & 430LS Autoclaves
Downstream Lab
- Cytiva ÄKTA process™ chromatography system
- GE ÄKTA Pilot & Avant chromatography systems
- Precision Nanosystems NanoAssemblr® Ignite™ LNP encapsulation device
- Millipore TF2S Mobius® FlexReady Solution for TFF
- Spectrum Labs KrosFlo® Research IIi & MiniKros PILOT TFF systems
- Millipore Pellicon® TFF cassette assemblies
- Labconco FreeZone 2.5L lyophilizer
- M&O Perry P-1540 vial filler
Analytical Lab
- Dionex UltiMate® 3000 HPLC system
- BioTek® Synergy™ H1 multi-mode plate reader
- Bio-Rad ChemiDoc™ MP gel and western blot imaging system
- Applied Biosystems 7500 Fast Real-time PCR system
- Bio-Rad QX200™ Droplet Generator and Droplet Reader
- Malvern Zetasizer Pro
- Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions Solair 3100 airborne particle counters
- Promega Spectrum Compact CE System
NCTM² — Dallas Facility
The Dallas facility, known as NCTM², is NCTM’s second training facility and expands its presence into the north Texas biomanufacturing corridor, one of the fastest-growing biotech corridors in the country. NCTM² increases NCTM’s capacity to deliver custom training programs and support workforce development with dedicated upstream, downstream, and quality control lab spaces.
Upstream Lab
- Eppendorf BioFlo® 120 fermentors w/ 5L vessels
- Eppendorf BioFlo® 320 bioreactor w/ 5L vessel
- Cytiva ReadyToProcess WAVE™ 25 Rocker single-use bioreactor
- Sartorius Biowelder® TC & Biosealer® TC
- Beckman Coulter Vi-CELL BLU cell viability analyzer
- Anvajo Biotech fluidlab R-300 cell counter and spectrometer
- Roche Cedex Bio analyzer
- Beckman Coulter Avanti high speed floor centrifuges
- Eppendorf 5810 R centrifuge
- Microfluidics M-110P homogenizer
- PHC MCO 170 Series CO2 incubators
- Labconco Logic Class II, Type A2 biosafety cabinets
- Laxco LMI-3000 Series inverted microscopes
- Laxco LMC-3000 Series brightfield compound microscopes
- STERIS® AMSCO® 250LS autoclave
- Yamato SM820 autoclaves
Downstream & QC Labs
- Cytiva ÄKTA avant 150 chromatography systems
- Cytiva AxiChrom™ 50/300 columns
- Astrea Bioseparations s15/350 SNAP® columns
- Repligen KrosFlo KR2i Tangential Flow Filtration systems
- Millipore Integritest® 5 filter integrity tester
- Agilent BioTek Synergy H1 multimodal plate reader
- Bio-Rad QX 200™ ddPCR Workflow w/ PCR Hood
- Bio-Rad Mini-Sub™ cell GT
- Bio-Rad Mini-PROTEAN® Tetra Systems
- Bio-Rad Trans-Blot® Turbo™ transfer system
- Bio-Rad ChemiDoc™ MP imaging system
- TSI AeroTrak total air particle counters
- Millipore MAS-100NT® air samplers
- Thermo Scientific Genesys 180 spectrophotometers
- Mettler Toledo SevenDirect SD23 pH & conductivity meters
- Elga Centra and Elga PureLab Chorus Ultra pure water systems