Facilities

The UCSC CIRM Shared Stem Cell Facility (SSCF) supports ongoing and new research and training efforts and enables work on non-NIH approved human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines.

The Biomedical Sciences Building will house the Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells.

The SSCF suite includes a core cell culture room and a cell culture training room for instructing individual researchers, small groups, and students taking the stem cell biology laboratory course. Adjoining rooms include a microscopy core, a live imaging and cell sorting facility, and rooms for reagent preparation and sample processing and analysis.

A new facility with state-of the-art equipment planned for the new Biomedical Sciences Facility is slated for completion in early 2011. This will expand UCSC’s stem cell research space over six-fold.