Facts about the New National Center for Regenerative Medicine Cell Production Facility

• Location – Sixth Floor of the Wolstein Research Building
• 3,000 square feet
• Completed 2005
• Six “class 10,000” clean rooms
• Ante room to clean rooms is itself a “class 100,000” clean room
• Changing rooms for gowning
• Wet laboratory specimen preparation facility
• Office
• Specimen quarantine room
• Meets FDA guidelines for an early stage patient trials facility
• Designed by Hasenstab Architects, Inc. of Akron. The engineers were Karpinski, Inc. of Cleveland
• Built by Erie Affiliates, Inc.
• Project team:
  • Kenneth Kutina, Ph.D., Team Leader
  • Stanton Gerson, M.D.
  • Debra Grega, Ph.D.
  • Jane Reese Koc
  • Jill Stanley
  • Ernie McLendon
  • Paul Olshavsky