Cryo-EMโœ“ External Access

Thermo Fisher Scientific Cryo-EM Drug Discovery Center (CDDC)

Thermo Fisher Cryo-EM Drug Discovery Center

๐Ÿ“ South San Francisco, CA ยท Website โ†—

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.

Equipment Inventory(2 instruments)

Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.

Vitrobot Mark IV

Thermo Fisher Scientific ยท Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: Plunge freezers in dedicated contained preparation labs.

Titan Krios G4

Thermo Fisher Scientific ยท Single Particle / Tomography

TEM
Voltage: 300 kV
Configuration: 300 kV cold field emission gun (C-FEG), Selectris X imaging filter, Falcon 4i; Smart EPU; CryoSPARC Live. Installed 2026.