The three floors of the Chown Building at the Bannatyne Campus are well equipped with modern facilities and instruments for biochemical. electrophysiological, microscopy, and physiological studies at the molecular, cellular, organ. and whole-animal levels. The department has technologists experienced in electronic and computer hardware. Other basic medical science departments, an NMR research laboratory, a teaching hospital, and animal quarters are located close by.  The fourth floor of the St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre is home to the Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders (DND).  DND occupies 5,000 square feet of new laboratory space including; laboratories for five principal investigators (four of whom are faculty members of the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, three culture rooms, a major equipment room, a Carl Zeiss LSM510 confocal microscopy room, a room for calcium imaging, a Carl Zeiss Axioskop II light upright microscope suite, a Bio-Rad Fluor-S imaging suite, HPLC room, a dark room, a walk-in cold room, two non human surgery and behavioral monitoring rooms, and a conference/student room.

 
            Chown Bldg. at Bannatyne Campus

           Research Centre at St. Boniface Campus

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