Facilities

The ICMR is located is new, purpose-built and state of the art research laboratories which bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines.Within this research environment researchers have access to cutting-edge facilities that support the spectrum of cardiovascular and metabolic research – ranging from cell and molecular biology approaches, cell and organ culture, through to models of disease and human studies. These include access in vitro and in vivo imaging technologies, microscopy, and tissue cultures suites. Human studies within the ICMR are supported by The Hugh Sinclair Unit for Human Nutrition, a clinical unit that enables the physiological impact of dietary change, and the effect of this on cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk to be studied.

Our cardiovascular and metabolic research is supported by platform technologies located close by, which include proteomics, biological mass spectrometry, surface plasmon resonance analysis, structural biology, and transcriptomics within our BioCentre, electron and atomic force microscopy at the  (CfAM), functional magnetic resonance imaging with cardiovascular capabilities within the Centre for Integrated Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, nuclear magnetic resonance analysis, thermal analysis, and X-ray analysis within the newly formed Chemical Analytical Facility, and the most powerful supercomputing facilities within the UK within the Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET).