Research Facilities

The Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of laboratory space. Additional research space for the department is housed in the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, the Biomedical Research Center, and the Barton Research Building. Extramural grant support for full-time faculty members in the Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences totaled more than $4 million for fiscal year 2003. A variety of equipment allows a breadth of research possibilities. Included are laboratories equipped for in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology, tissue culture, biochemistry, molecular biology, and image analysis. In addition, the department occupies a 12,000-square-foot state-of-the-art teaching facility for gross anatomy  The department is home to two campus research centers: UAMS Center for Neuroscience Research, and the Center for Translational Neuroscience. The library of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences contains approximately 172,000 books and bound journal volumes, and has 949 print and 2093 electronic journal subscriptions.