Renovation of Shared Research Laboratories.

该改造项目的重点将是杜兰大学医学中心Burthe-Cottam大楼的一部分。改造的目标是在生物化学系，它被指定负责容纳、操作和管理一个机构共享的仪器设备，用于分子生物学的研究。该设施将包括几个设备舱、一个组织培养实验室、一个储存和临时处置危险化学品（诱变剂、溶剂、放射性同位素等）的房间以及供新研究人员使用的实验室。一个区域将被分隔、布置并配备色谱和离心设备、一间暗室、一间冷藏室和用于一般样品处理的仪器。第二个区域将作为蛋白质和核酸化学设施。第三个区域将进行分区和翻新，以提供一个多用户的组织培养实验室和共享空间，用于储存有害物质并为其处置做准备。第四个房间非常大（约3800平方米）。Ft)将被划分为实验室，并为三名新研究人员共享工作区。这个奖项将使这个空间现代化，使其完全可用于生物研究。

The focus of this renovation project will be parts of the Burthe-Cottam Building at Tulane University Medical Center. The space targeted for renovation is in the Department of Biochemistry, which has been assigned the responsibility to house, operate, and manage an institutional shared instrumentation facility for research in molecular biology. Included in the facility will be several equipment bays, a tissue culture laboratory, a room for storage and transient disposal of hazardous chemicals (mutagens, solvents, radioisotopes, etc.) and laboratories for new investigators. One area will be partitioned, furnished, and equipped to provide chromatography and centrifugation facilities, a dark-room, a cold-room, and instruments for general sample- handling. A second area will serve as the Protein and Nucleic Acids Chemistry Facility. The third area will be partitioned and renovated to provide a multi-user tissue culture laboratory and shared space for the storage of hazardous materials and preparation for its disposal. A fourth, very large, room (about 3800 sq. ft) will be partitioned to create laboratories, and shared work areas for three new investigators. This award will allow the modernization of this space so that it is totally usable for biological research.