Resources and Facilities

The Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology is housed primarily in the Department of Physiology, which occupies 21,000 square feet within the UMass Worcester Campus and generates over three million dollars a year in extramural support for research. The Program is equipped with the most modern instrumentation available for biomedical research. Students, research fellows, and faculty have access to communal facilities within the graduate program as well as facilities in the other academic departments.

The UMass Medical School campus provides research core facilities for peptide synthesis, nucleic acid synthesis, recombinant DNA technology, viral research, electronmicroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, X-Ray crystallography, tissue culture, fluorescence-activated cell sorting, submicron-particle sizing, monoclonal antibody production, radioimmunoassay, as well as a biological imaging facility and a transgenic animal core facility. There is also a central animal care facility administered in accordance with NIH, federal, and state mandated guidelines. All of the above facilities are available to the UMass Medical School research community.

The Information Services Department provides access to mainframe and microcomputers that are equipped with a comprehensive selection of programming, imaging, mathematical, statistical, graphics, and text processing packages. Biostatisticians provide support for statistical and mathematical analysis of biological data. Electronics and machine shops offer design, construction, repair, and servicing of instrumentation.

The Lamar Soutter Medical Library subscribes to over 2,500 journals, houses a book collection of about 225,000 volumes, and provides computerized literature search and word processing facilities.