Facilities

Based at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the Clark H. Smith Brain Tumor Center occupies laboratory space in the Heritage Medical Research Building, and the Health Sciences Centre. The Smith Center is currently relocating into new space in the Health Research Innovation Centre, which is physically joined with Smith Center-allocated space in the Heritage Medical Research Building. Clinical research takes place at the Foothills Hospital and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, which are located within the same research complex, as well as the Alberta Children's Hospital, located a few minutes away at the U of C's West Campus. 

The following core facilities provide key support for researchers at the Smith Center:  

1. Brain Tumor and Tissue Bank    
2. Molecular Diagnostics Core
3. "Patient Passport" Database
4. Brain Tumor Stem Cell Core
5. Image Processing Facility
6. Pre-Clinical Testing Core
7. Clinical Trials Core 

Through our affiliation with SACRI and the Faculty of Medicine, Smith Center researchers also have access to many other state-of-the-art core facilities. For more information about the resources and services provided by each facility, click on the links below:

1. Cell Imaging Facility
2. Southern Alberta Microarray Facility
3. Southern Alberta Mass Spectrometry Facility
4. Centre for Mouse Genomics
5. Flow Cytometry Facility
6. Peptide Synthesis Facility
7. University Core DNA Services
8. Centre for Advanced Technologies