Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Welcome to the Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre (GBRC) Website. GBRC was formally opened by the Princess Royal on April 2006. The Centre is a major research hub of the University of Glasgow in the area of Biomedical Science and houses approximately 300 research workers in cognate areas. The principal aim of the GBRC is to create an internationally competitive centre of research excellence in a multi-disciplinary environment, from molecular structure (crystallography), through to microbiology, molecular parasitology and immunobiology. The centre has created an interactive atmosphere where the guiding principle is to conduct basic and applied research at the highest level. 
 
The GBRC houses many long term programme grants from the MRC, the Wellcome Trust and CRUK. It is also the home of the Wellcome Centre of Molecular Parasitology and the INSERM unit of Molecular Parasitology. The GBRC has an open plan research laboratory with each of the 5 floors capable of accommodating up to 60 bench scientists with considerable flexibility. The Centre has state-of-the-art facilities for structural and molecular biology, imaging and cellular biology. GBRC also has considerable number of clinically qualified and active clinicians, who contribute substantially to translational research. The Centre is physically linked to the newly opened British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research Centre and hence offers tremendous opportunity for collaborative research going from the bench to the bedside.

I hope you enjoy visiting our website.

 
Director: Professor Richard Cogdell FRS

image credits

• Kay Greenshields, Shiny mice- fluorescent axons and motor endplates stained with pink bungaratoxin
• Angela Morton, Tracking antigen-specific T cells (red) in the lymph node following induction of priming
• Gill Douce, Hospital 'superbug' Clostridium difficile interacting withthe mucosal membrane of the gut
• Sophie May, Divide and Conquer - Cytokinesis in T. brucei