Research Facilities
All graduate student research is carried out in faculty research laboratories located on the Brown University campus and in nearby affiliated hospitals. In addition to all of the basic research equipment, tools and facilities, there are several major, shared facilities.
Current and Developing Facilities
- Microscope Facility that houses two high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, a scanning electron microscope, a confocal microscope and image analysis with processing software;
- Professionally staffed Animal Care Facility fully equipped for animal maintenance, large animal surgery and experimentation;
- Molecular pathology core facility;
- DNA and protein core facility;
- Hybridoma laboratory;
- Fluorescence-activated cell sorter;
- Molecular modeling center.
The fourteen story Sciences Library houses approximately 4,000 current periodicals, many also in electronic format, 530,000 bound volumes, electronic database search facilities, and study space for 300 students. A campus-wide broadband communications network, connecting more than 110 buildings on campus, provides high-speed data communications among thousands of workstations, terminals, hosts and servers. Brown University's national prominence in the sciences continues to grow. In addition to the facilities on campus and the affiliated hospitals, construction of a new state-of-the-art campus Life Sciences building will be completed shortly. Located in the old jewelry district nearby is the recently constructed Molecular Medicine Research Laboratories at 70 Ship Street in Downtown Providence. This building serves as home to many investigators and houses the Center for Genetics and Genomics, a major University resource funded by a National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant.