T32 CAM Research Training Grant Funded by NIH/NCCAM
Designated by the Carnegie Foundation as among the top research universities in America, WSU is located in Pullman, WA. WSU has federal grant expenditures in excess of $60 million per year, and total research expenditures in excess of $118 million per year.
WSU houses many research and service centers:
Electron Microscopy Center
Center of Visualization, Analysis and Design in the Molecular Sciences (VADMS Center)
Institute of Biological Chemistry
Cancer Prevention and Research Center (CPRC)
Under the directorship of Dr. Gary Meadows, CPRC is the focal point for cancer research at WSU. Its membership includes a diverse group of WSU faculty from a variety of departments.
Marion Ownbey Herbarium
Among the largest herbaria of the Pacific Northwest, it contains nearly 350,000 specimens of vascular and nonvascular plants and lichens, and state-of the-art greenhouse and growth chamber facilities for faculty and student research projects.
Trainees of this grant will have access to the laboratory facilities of Drs. Howard Hosick and Gary Meadows. These facilities are dedicated to studying the cellular and molecular aspects of cancer development.
Each investigator has more than 2,000 square feet of space, including fully-equipped tissue culture rooms, general laboratory space, cold rooms, instrument rooms, darkrooms and histochemistry labs. Available equipment includes tissue culture equipment, fluorometers, liquid scintillation spectrometers, electrophoresis and chromatography equipment, fluorescence microscopes and a flow cytometer. These investigators have access to:
WSU Information Technology Center
VADS Lab (facilities for analysis of molecules and structures)
Laboratory for Biotechnology and Bioanalysis (DNA synthesis, peptide synthesis, peptide sequencing and amino acid analysis)
FACS
Electron Microscope Center (transmission and scanning microscopes)
