What We Aim To Do
Our goal is to support research labs by giving them more time to focus on their work. We streamline the chemical receiving process by reducing the time labs spend tracking packages, updating inventory, and disposing of packaging materials. By handling these administrative tasks, we ease the burden on researchers while also improving inventory accuracy—a win for everyone!
Chemical Receiving in Select Buildings
ChemCentral currently handles chemical receiving for three of our building locations. The locations we do receiving for are listed as follows:
- Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building located at Mission Bay
- Pride Hall located near Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG)
- Byers Hall and Genentech Hall located at Mission Bay
Both our Weill and Pride Hall site have one physical location that serves as both the Stockroom and Receiving location. Byers and Genentech Hall will have separate rooms for both services.
Parnassus will be the next location we aim to expand our receiving services too!
How Our Process Works
A ChemCentral account must be made prior so that we can receive your chemicals and add them to your lab's inventory.
If you are located at one of the select locations that have ChemCentral and chemical receiving available to them, then here is a quick run down of how our process works.
1. Chemicals that are bought through BearBuy (with a commodity code deeming a hazardous chemical) will have the ship-to address automatically changed and rerouted to our ChemCentral address and room during the checkout process.
- 2540 23rd Street, Room 2551 for Pride Hall
- 1651 4th Street, Room 167 for the Weill Building
- 600 16th Street, Room N101 for Byers and Genentech Hall
2. Orders will be delivered to either of the ChemCentral locations depending on which building you ordered from. Once we receive it at ChemCentral, we unpack and inventory the items into the respective labs. We dispose of any excess packaging materials and keep all important documents.
3. After inventorying the item, we email the individual listed on the package's 'Attention-to' line. For Pride Hall, we notify them that their package is ready for pick-up at ChemCentral. For the Weill building, we deliver the items to the lab's designated drop zone. In both scenarios, we attach a picture of the items onto the email. See location specific pages on our website for more details.
