Thermo Fisher Scientific's Carlsbad campus on Van Allen Way spans more than 600,000 square feet and employs approximately 2,500 scientists and manufacturing specialists. The facility's 67,000-square-foot Center for Excellence expansion produces plasmid DNA used as a critical raw material for cell and gene therapies, a manufacturing scale that requires specialized scientific staffing recruited by Medical Resources Staffing Services across the region. As a NYSE-listed global leader in life science instrumentation, the Carlsbad site focuses on clinical and commercial-scale biomanufacturing alongside laboratory equipment supply for the broader North County biotech cluster. Operations across the three-building campus carry commercial liability coverage through the same carrier networks serving Carlsbad's biotech sector, with brokerage services from Gaslamp Insurance. The plasmid DNA production line supports CAR-T cell therapy and mRNA vaccine manufacturing at scales requiring multi-thousand-liter fermentation and downstream purification under cGMP protocols.