Thermo Fisher Cryo-EM Drug Discovery Center
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South San Francisco, California
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Vendor-operated membership center opened by Thermo Fisher Scientific on March 5, 2026 at Oyster Point, South San Francisco, modeled on the UK Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium in Cambridge (est. 2016). Member companies access a Krios G4 with cold FEG, Selectris X and Falcon 4i, Vitrobot IV preparation labs, Smart EPU and CryoSPARC Live, with Thermo Fisher application scientists on site. It is a real facility but is a corporate consortium/demonstration center, not an academic core facility or a contract research organization.
Membership-based: pharmaceutical and biotech companies join as members (rolling membership, founding customer members) and get on-site or remote access to instruments and staff; it is explicitly not a fee-for-service or sample-in/structure-out site, and there is no academic core-facility access route.
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