Working in the heart
of Nova Scotia’s academic health sciences network.

Our Facilities

Life Sciences Research Institute

Opened in 2011, the Life Sciences Research Institute (LSRI) is a bright, open and spacious modern building in the heart of Nova Scotia’s academic health sciences network — next door to Dalhousie University Medical School and across the street from the QEII Health Sciences Centre and IWK Health Centre.

A joint initiative between Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, it is home to our administrative offices, state-of-the-art core facilities and a number of neuroscience research labs. We house more than $22 million of federally-funded equipment, secured by our researchers and used in our work every day.

Facilities located in the LSRI include:

• Proteomics facility

• FACS Aria III flow cytometry facility

• Laser confocal microscopy facility

• Laser micro-dissection microscopy facility

• Zebrafish core facility

Other Facilities

In addition to core research facilities in the LSRI, our researchers have access to a number of other important multi-user and core facilities at Dalhousie Medical School and the IWK Health Centre. These include:

• Biomedical MRI Research Lab

• Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Lab

• Maritime Brain Tissue Bank