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: