BIO-REPOSITORY SERVICES
The company's biological repository facility is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland,
and occupies over 6,500 square feet of space. The
repository was designed to promote the safe handling, receipt,
processing, storage, inventory control, packaging and distribution for all
types of infectious and non-infectious biological specimens and reagents.
The facility houses ultra-low mechanical freezers, vapor-phase liquid nitrogen
freezers and mechanical walk-in freezer and cold rooms. A multi-purpose
computerized security system provides around-the-clock secure access,
intrusion and fire detection, and electronic monitoring of all freezers and
critical building functions.
In the past, KamTek managed NIH-NIAID Reference reagent Repository that stored and distributed over 2000 different reagent products including antisera against a wide variety of viruses and other infectious organisms, as well as viral antigens, allergenic, mycoplasma, and immunologic reagents. The NIAID Repository was designated World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Antiviral Drugs and Interferon and responsible for the international distribution of the WHO Interferon reference standards In addition, other government agencies and private sector clients use our repository and there is provision to accommodate new clients as well.
