Research Environment

The University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington has recently undergone major expansion including a new 130,000 square foot Academic Research Building with transgenic mouse barrier facility, together with a dramatic increase in federally funded research. The Center for Molecular Medicine, with space on two floors of the new building contiguous with the Department of Genetics, has a major focus on genetic approaches to human disease, including use of relevant animal models. Numerous opportunities for interactions exist with translational research programs in Cancer and in Bone/Musculoskeletal Disorders; and with numerous basic and clinical Departments and Centers. The University operates state-of-the-art core facilities for mouse transgenics and ES cell manipulation, microarray production and analysis, nucleic acid sequencing, flow cytometry, electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, fluorescence imaging, bone histomorphometry including micro CT, automated genotyping, histology and protein sequencing and mass spectrophometery. The CMM recently acquired a state-of-the-art Laser Capture Microdissection apparatus from Arcturus, Inc.