SBMC contract R&D and flexible lab space

Cell Biology Lab

The ML-II cell laboratory at SBMC is fully equipped for a wide variety of cell-work, cellular assays and to study cell-biomaterial interactions. Basic equipment includes laminar air flow cabinets, automated cell counter, brightfield microscope, Andrew+ pipetting robot, incubators, temperature-controlled centrifuge, -80 °C and liquid nitrogen cell storage. Additionally, the following stand-alone specialized equipment is available for rent:

• Leica HistoCore equipment
• Leica Thunder Live Cell inverted epifluorescence microscope
• Leica Stellaris 5 confocal laser scanning microscope
• Tecan Spark Cyto 400 Multimode Reader

Biomaterial Lab

SBMC’s biomaterials laboratory offers you a general laboratory for biomaterial development and analysis. The laboratory features basic equipment including fume hoods equipped with nitrogen, argon, and compressed air, (micro)scales, a vacuum oven, sonication bath. Additionally, the following stand-alone specialized equipment is available for rent:

• Vivolta EC-CLI climate-controlled electrospinning apparatus
• Phenom XL desktop SEM with EDX functionality
• Anton Paar Rheometer
• Instron Extensometer with Biopuls Bath
• Andrew+ pipetting robot

In addition to their rental offerings, their professional staff is available for hybrid contract R&D, providing collaborative support to help you achieve your research and development goals. Whether you require rental equipment, lab space or expert assistance, SBMC meets your needs and drives your project forward.

What else is offered
Beyond lab space, SBMC supports your innovation from early concept to application-ready solutions. Services include:

• Concept & feasibility support – translating ideas into defined applications, material selection, and early performance assessment
• Biomaterials development – optimisation of material composition, structure, and functional performance
• Process development & prototyping – establishing reproducible workflows and scalable processing strategies
• Integrated characterisation & biological evaluation – linking mechanical, structural, and biological testing to real development questions
• Method validation – Expertise in establishing analytical methods and validating them for product-specific challenges.
• Quality & regulatory alignment – structured documentation, test method development, and generation of reproducible datasets
• Validation & scale-up readiness – refining prototypes and preparing for pilot production or further development

End-to-end support ensures your material evolves into a reliable, well-characterised product ready for next-stage development or regulatory pathways.

Pilot Production Facility

Alongside the Development Facility, SBMC’s provides a cleanroom facility, situated in a multi-tenant building on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The facility includes a cleanroom area, storage rooms (23 – 30 m²) and a QC laboratory.

The cleanroom consists of a central, controlled not-classified (CNC) corridor, which is accessible for personnel via a consecutive shared gowning area, and for materials and/or equipment via a shared material airlock.  All cleanroom areas can be accessed from the central CNC corridor. Each of the four cleanroom production areas is reachable via two dedicated consecutive personnel air locks.

A technical room is located between two adjacent cleanrooms, providing space for production area-related, external equipment.  Cleanrooms 1 (58 m²) & 4 (112 m²), and 2 (43 m²) & 3 (53 m²) can be directly connected when desired. Cleanroom production areas are temperature controlled, and relative humidity is monitored.

Their contract research & development department and flexible lab space are located at the Catalyst building on the TU/e campus, which underpins their close collaboration with the various research groups. SBMC is embedded in the Brainport Eindhoven ecosystem, where biomaterials, MedTech and advanced manufacturing converge. This environment connects research, development and industry, accelerating the translation from concept to application

Quality as a service

SBMC provides Quality Management as a Service (QMaaS), ensuring that all projects comply with strict regulatory requirements. This means you don’t have to retrofit compliance later in the process.

• QMS Blueprints: Standardized quality management procedures
• ISO 13485:2016 Compliance: Guidance and support for medical device regulations