Research Facilities
The Department of Molecular Pharmaceutics faculty and their lab members occupy space in the Skaggs Research Institute (SRI), the old Skaggs Hall, Biomedical Polymers Research Building (BPRB) and the Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building (SMBB). These buildings are all proximal to the Health Sciences Center and Health Sciences Library. SMBB is also adjacent to the College of Engineering. BPRB houses the Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery. SRI houses the Cell Sheet Tissue Engineering Center and SMBB houses the Utah Center for Nanomedicine.
All department space is well equipped for graduate research containing facilities for chemical synthesis, molecular biology, protein chemistry, cell culture, and small animal surgery. The Department also possesses multiple cold rooms, darkrooms, modern computing facilities, several shared instrument rooms, offices, and conference rooms. Graduate students have access to state of the art core facilities at the Health Sciences Core, The Huntsman Cancer Institute and the Utah Nanofab among other facilities on campus.
Research Buildings
This premier research and teaching facility is connected to the existing School of Pharmacy by an impressive four-story atrium. The atrium itself houses elevators, connections between buildings at each level and a variety of gathering spaces.
Two thirds of the new building is devoted to laboratories, animal facilities, support spaces and office/conference room clusters associated with particular research emphases. The remainder houses computer and conference space associated with non-laboratory research.
This state-of-the-art biomedical research building combines the medical and electronic aspects of research, and supports 11 research "Centers of Excellence" from three separate colleges. The exterior is covered in cast-in-place concrete panels, brick masonry and glass window-wall system. A reinforced concrete waffle slab structure minimizes vibration—which is an important factor in a research facility.
The building includes a number of laboratories, testing areas, training labs, offices and animal holding areas. The spaces are very flexible, which accommodates the ever-changing needs of researchers and their experiments.
The 208,000 square feet building is located on the north side of the university campus in Salt Lake City in the state of Utah, US. It is the first facility to link the western and eastern portions of the university campus.
The facility is part of the Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) initiative. USTAR is an economic initiative backed by the state of Utah to support state-of-the-art research facilities and research teams. It is aimed at creating new technologies and their commercialization.
The new biotechnology building will be used to carry out research in various disciplines, such as materials science, engineering and biomedical science.
It is constructed as part of a four building quadrangle being planned by the university to bridge the gap between various disciplines.
Faculty Research
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