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MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
Basic Sciences Research Building
Houston, Texas

MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) originally planned this project as a replacement building for consolidating research groups from other MDACC facilities. The focus changed, however, to designing a generic biomedical research facility that would be used as a recruitment tool for top scientists and their research staffs.

The Basic Sciences Research Building will house 60 Scientists and their staff.  Laboratories occupy the primary space with offices, conference/seminar rooms, common amenities and building support at opposing ends of the lab block. The facility contains a barrier animal facility for transgenic, nude, SPF and immuno-suppressed rodents. In a joint effort with MD Anderson and the University of Texas Health Science Center, the Graduate School of Biological Sciences will also occupy a floor of the facility.

The facility is designed as a core with a functioning module pattern that can be easily adapted as PI’s move into the facility. Investigators will choose from a “Kit of Rooms” (i.e hood room, BSL-3 Lab, FACS lab, Tissue Culture, PCR lab) to meet their specific requirements. They will also choose from a “Kit of Parts” for casework, lab benches, fittings and equipment.