Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Rensselaer's new center ranks among the world's most advanced research facilities focused on the application of engineering and the physical and information sciences to the life sciences.

The Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies houses faculty and researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research, and hosts world-class programs and symposia. It exemplifies a new research paradigm, as no department offices reside in the building; rather, it is occupied by researchers and their laboratories.

The core research facilities within the Center contain laboratories for molecular biology, analytical biochemistry, microbiology, imaging, histology, tissue and cell culture, proteomics, and scientific computing and visualization. The Center will contain an 800 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer and the computing and visualization infrastructure needed to model molecular structure at the atomic level.