Conconi Family Biodevice Foundry

Who uses the Conconi Family Biodevice Foundry?

Our common access facility supports a wide range of users, including:

• UBC undergraduate and graduate students
• Academic researchers and research groups
• Industry collaborators and startups
• External academic partners

New users are welcome. Training and onboarding are provided based on your project needs and experience level.

What can you do here?

• Fabricate micro- and nano-scale structures
• Rapidly prototype custom mechanical and polymer parts
• Functionalize surfaces for biological applications
• Assemble and package devices
• Characterize materials and finished devices
• Receive design and process support from experienced staff

Mission

The Conconi Family Biodevice Foundry is a common access facility and the first of its kind in Western Canada to be designed and oriented for life sciences applications. The unique capability of this common access facility is that it interfaces standard cleanroom microdevice manufacturing processes with cutting-edge life sciences research.

The Conconi Family Biodevice Foundry aims to develop solutions to common challenges by consolidating specialized infrastructure and technological expertise, nucleating a pool of experts and giving them the technological capabilities to create translation-centric solutions to biomedical and clinical problems.

The Conconi Family Biodevice Foundry re-imagines what a common access facility can be: not only implementing off-the-shelf Biodevices for users, but also creating custom solutions by innovating novel materials, techniques, and Biodevice types.

Virtual Tour

Explore the facility virtually through the Nucleus tour portal.

Regular staffed hours

Monday-Friday (except holidays): 08:30 - 16:30

Address

Conconi Family Biodevice Foundry
B1130, SBME, UBC
6088 University Blvd
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3