Quick facts

Total square feet: 340,000, 50 per cent of which is dedicated to laboratories in two new research buildings

Number of labs: 55

Staff: More than 600, including Principal Investigators, graduate students, post-docs, technical staff and administrative staff

Cost: Over $73 million for construction

Collaborative research: In addition to its dozens of laboratories, offices and other amenities, the McGill University Life Sciences Complex will encourage collaborative research by offering a seminar room, two conference rooms and 14 separate team rooms. The complex will house over a dozen core facilities, including:

  • Flow Cytometry
  • Developmental Histology Facility
  • High Throughput Screening and High Content Screening
  • Hybridoma Facility
  • Imaging
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Transgenic Facility
  • Cell Imaging and Analysis Network
  • Microfab
  • High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
  • Life Sciences Complex Scientific IT Unit
  • Laser Scope Microscopy Facility

For more information download the 3D diagram of the Life Sciences Complex:

Life Sciences Complex 3D diagram [.pdf]

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