The research facilities are located in the Medical School and adjacent Biomedical Research Institute. Equipment includes a phosphorimager, preparative and analytical ultracentrifuges, DNA sequencing equipment, several HPLC's, computers, spectrophotometers, a spectrofluorometer, and scintillation counters. The Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy occupies more than 20,000 square feet of modern work space. Among these are facilities for HPLC, fluorescence microscopy, monoclonal antibody production, cell culture and virus cultivation, recombinant DNA and radiation work, a germfree mouse colony, flow cytometry, and a darkroom complex. The Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics has 12,000 square feet of space and equipment for biochemical, behavioral, molecular, and physiological studies.
Programs emphasize neurochemical, behavioral, and neuroendocrine approaches to neuropharmacology.
Specialized facilities include laboratories for operant and other behaviors, brain imaging, cell culture, and neurochemistry. The Department of Physiology and Biophysics occupies 12,000 square feet of space that is fully equipped for research with cellular, organ, and whole animal models of the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract, and kidneys. Complete facilities are available for intravital video microscopy, confocal microscopy and image analysis, cell culture, subcellular fractionation, antibody production, immunocytochemistry, protein and lipid analysis, chromatography, and computer data acquisition and analysis. Financial Aid Financial support in the form of assistantships and waiver of tuition fees is available. These assistantships are at or above the level of those of the National Institutes of Health and are awarded on a competitive basis.