Research

Our Research Facilities

The Department currently occupies approximately 25,000 square feet of Marsico Hall. A significant number of faculty who hold primary appointments in the department have laboratories housed in the adjacent Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center as well other departments within the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Large, well-equipped research laboratories are supplemented by dedicated tissue culture suites, microscopy rooms, warm and cold rooms, shared equipment rooms, supervised animal care facilities, and containment facilities for research involving Biosafety Level 3 pathogens.

In addition, the University provides access to over 80 technology core facilities with major equipment and expertise including structural biology, animal histopathology, proteomics and genomics, bioinformatics, animal models (transgenic mouse and embryonic stem cell services), flow cytometry, and imaging.