Facilities in the School of Medicine
Education and Research facilities
Research facilities

Research facility
Harnessing the power of biomarker and drug analysis for clinical research and drug development.

Research facility
Light Microscopy is a widely used tool to visualise and quantify cellular behaviour and structure. The light microscopy facility offers a range of light microscope systems, each one with different capabilities so that a range techniques can be employed.
Research facility
The Clinical Research Imaging Facility (CRIF) is a clinical imaging suite providing state-of-the-art facilities, with a dedicated professional infrastructure to facilitate high quality clinical research, experimental medicine and advanced image guided interventional techniques.
Research facility
A secure bio-repository that collects samples of surplus tissue and other specimens donated by consenting patients who have undergone surgery or other medical procedure during the course of their investigations and treatment.

Research facility
The Tayside Bioresource is a portfolio of individual studies that have been recruiting participants from Tayside to genetic research since 1997.
Research facility
The Genetics Core Services Unit provides genetic analysis services including Next Generation Sequencing, Long-read Sequencing, Sanger Sequencing, Fragment Analysis, Real Time PCR and DNA/RNA quality control.
Research facility
Tayside Clinical Trials Unit (TCTU) is a fully registered UKCRC trials unit working with investigators and clinicians to design and deliver high quality clinical research.
Research facility
DEBU is a group of biostatisticians and epidemiologists led by Professor Peter Donnan and includes biostatisticians from across medicine, dentistry, and nursing.
Research facility
Open to staff and students, this core facility promotes the use of flow cytometry in a wide variety of applications. We offer use of two multiuser benchtop flow cytometers.
Research facility
HIC Services supports high impact research through the collection and management of population based data.
Research facility
This facility handles, processes and analyses blood samples for biomarkers using various immunoassay techniques.

Research facility
A Live-Cell Analysis System which enables real-time, quantitative live-cell assays within a tissue culture incubator.