CRAFT’s state-of-the-art facilities for microfluidic device design, fabrication, characterization and applications are located at the University of Toronto’s St. George campus and the National Research Council of Canada’s campus in Boucherville, Quebec.

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Device Foundry

Researcher analyzing a microfluidic chip in the clean room.

Rooms 7175
7th Floor, Bahen Centre for Information Technology
40 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4

  • Now open!
  • Location: St. George Campus, University of Toronto
  • Purpose-built for microfluidic device prototyping and small-scale fabrication (1 to 100s of devices)
  • 250+ nasm: class-1,000 lithography cleanroom, class-10,000 scale-up fabrication room and a dedicated polymer processing room with PDMS station
  •  Capabilities:
    • photo-lithography
    • soft-lithography
    • 3D printing (polymer, glass)
    • thermal embossing & bonding
    • laser cutting
    • injection molding
    • roll-2-roll coating
    • +35 bookable instruments (see full list here)
  • Direct user access and fee for service available.

Tissue Foundry

Researcher looking through the microscope at the University of Toronto's research facilities.

Rooms 403 and 405
4th floor, Mechanical Engineering, MC
5 King’s College Road, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8

  • Now fully open!
  • Location: St. George Campus, University of Toronto
  • For preclinical validation of devices
  • 180 nasm: CL2 biosafety laboratories
  • capabilities:
    • 3D bioprinting (Regenhu and BioAssemblybot)
    • live-cell imaging (IncuCyte S3, Zeiss AxioObserver)
    • hybrid interfacial rheometry
    • confocal microscopy
    • atomic force microscopy
    • calcium imaging
    • fluorescence lifetime imaging
    • biosafety & laminar cabinets
    • incubators
    • autoclaves
    • freezers & fumehoods
  • equipped with 15 bookable instruments (See full list here)
  • Direct user access available.

Integrated Bio-devices Fabrication Facilities

Researcher at the National Research Council Canada facilities.

75 de Mortagne Boulevard
Boucherville, QC J4B 6Y4

  • Location: NRC campus, Boucherville, Quebec
  • Size: 6500 sqft
  • Key capability and expertise: rapid scaling up of device fabrication under certified conditions that can be transferred to industry for large-scale manufacturing
  • Other capabilities:
    • photolithography & spin coating
    • hot embossing
    • etching & metal thin film deposition
    • device prototyping
    • scanning EM & metrology
    • electrochemistry
    • 3D printing and micro-machining
    • injection molding
    • microinjection molding
    • device assembly
    • microfluidics design & testing
    • instrumentation design & assembly
    • molecular biology laboratory (BSL2)
    • space & remote communities biology
    • cellular biology laboratory (BSL2)
  • Fee for service only