Here is where we answer the most frequent questions we get from you!
1. Getting to know Testa Center
Cytiva is a global provider of technologies and services that advance and accelerate the development and manufacture of therapeutics. Testa Center is the platform for Cytiva to listen, learn, collaborate and do training with academia and small-medium businesses.
In practical work this implies;
- Joining the ecosystem of cutting-edge research and startup innovation.
- Using Testa Center as testing ground for collaborations and projects.
- Learn startup culture by rotation of staff from the Biopharma company to Testa Center.
- Training and professional development of the life science workforce in general.
In general, separation resins are considered consumable, and the project needs to bring its own separation resin into Testa Center.
Testa Center does however have a variety of columns (hardware) which are available to use by projects.
See our mission.
In 2016 both Cytiva and the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation where reviewing options for accelerating growth for innovative technologies in Bio-pharma. Both parties agreed in 2016 to strike a deal to lower the thresholds into the bio-production by making modern Bio-pharma infrastructure available to the world in a way that benefits academia, small and medium companies developing, testing and verifying bio-production products and technology.
No. Testa Center is a DIY-facility.
If you need more hands in the lab, we suggest you use partners.
Get in contact with [email protected] to learn more about preferred resources available for your project.
See the contact-page. Or learn more about the staff and who to talk to.
What you generate in Testa Center is yours and yours only.
Testa Center provides its services with no strings attached.
We do not apply contractual rights like “Right of first refusal” or similar and you may perform your project under strict confidentiality.
Yes, Testa Center is an open research facility/test bed. That said, we have a 3rd party project review board and a due diligence process that must be successful before a project can enter a Testa Center lab.
For your information, we cannot accept any projects using radioactive compounds, ex-classed processes or projects with need of a BSL3 or BSL4 controlled environment.
We accept international and global academia, start-up, small-medium-businesses and industries*.
*Laws for international business and trade are applied.
Prior to entering Testa Center there will be a feasibility review, a project plan review and a boarding-protocol.
Access fee includes access to a bio-processing lab including equipment, an office space and shared infrastructure such as lunch room, restrooms, printers and Wi-Fi internet.
The Testa Center default offering includes a pay-as-you-go & as-a-service model for usage of labs and equipment. The Testa Center staff will provide you with help to get your project started.
Consumables, chemicals and resources to your project are not in the offering.
Exact price for your project can only be answered by the Testa Center sales representative [email protected].
We use a pay-as-you-go and as-a-service-model where you pay only for the time you spend in the labs and what equipment you use.
We would love to have you here for a study-visit! We have about 2000 visitors per year!
We arrange tour for groups up to 20 people per tour. One tour is usually 30-90 minutes. We need the names of the participants two business days before the tour. The tour is free. The tour does not include food or transportation. Apply on our site today!
Upstream bio-processing capability from small scale (mL culture volumes) to pilot scale (500 L culture volumes for mammalian cells & 50 L culture volumes for microbial).
For harvest we have batch centrifugation (12 L) and filtration capabilities in pilot scale.
Chromatography capabilities ranges from lab scale to full production scales.
For a more comprehensive list of equipment please see our Instrument List.
The closest airport is Arlanda (ARN) International Airport. (40 mins taxi-ride toTesta Center).
The closest railway station is Uppsala Central Station. (20 mins walk toTesta Center).
The closest bus stop is Uppsala Björkgatan södra. (5 min walk to Testa Center).
Car parking is found at Cytiva, Björkgatan 30, Uppsala. (2 mins walk to Testa Center).
Visitors enter via the Cytiva’s site Reception at Björkgatan 30, Uppsala, Sweden.
GPS position for the Testa Center facility is 59.854292, 17.669311.
Are you trying to find out how to get to Testa Center?
We don’t have fax, land-line or mobile phones or laptops for you, sorry.
Labs includes
Smaller standard lab utilities are available, e.g., LAF benches, pH meters, conductivity meters, floor centrifuges, lab bench centrifuges, scales, pumps, welders, spectrophotometer, autoclaves, UPS, fridge, freezer, heating block, water bath, pipettes and general glass ware.
See the full Instrument list of Testa Center.
Media in the labs include:
O2, N2, CO2
Purified Water (RO/EDI)
Tap water (KVMJ)
Pressured air
220 V 50Hz EU-plug compatible Schuko Type C/F outlets IEC 60309 electricity outlets and LAN ethernet network are also avalible.
Offices includes
Tables, chairs, whiteboard with pens, TV/monitor with HDMI connector + several adapters. Wifi network with public internet access.
Other shared resources incuded are: Printer, restrooms, lunch room.
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