The Anlyan Center

The Anlyan Center for Medical Research & Education (TAC)

The Anylan Center (TAC), constructed at a cost of $176 million, is part of Yale's $1 billion investment for new and reconstructed biomedical research facilities over the next 10 years. The new building-located at the corner of Congress Avenue and Cedar Street-provides six floors of laboratories for disease-oriented research as well as core research resources and teaching facilities, including an animal resources center and a magnetic resonance center.

Sixteen of the 21 faculty in the Department of Immunobiology are housed in TAC and the remaining laboratories are located in nearby buildings. This provides Yale Immunology with a unique concentration of superb laboratories and investigators dedicated to the study of the immune system. We believe this represents an outstanding training environment. Four of the faculty are funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which provides for substantial research resources. Overall, the Department of Immunobiology provides perhaps the largest integrated training program in immunology in the country, led by a faculty with a reputation for leadership and excellence in research.

Immunobiology laboratories are fully equipped with all of the standard, modern equipment needed for research in molecular biology and immunology. The Department of Immunobiology maintains a wide variety of major equipment including fluorescence microscopes, scintillation counters, film developer, phosphoimagers, fluorimager, BIAcore apparatus, multiple flow cytometers/cell sorters, cesium irradiator, and an upright laser scanning microscope with a two-photon laser used for real time imaging of cells within lymphoid tissues. Dr. Richard Flavell, chair of the department, oversees a very active transgenic mouse/ES cell/knockout facility to which members of the department have easy access. Also easily available are core facilities in electron microscopy, histology, pathology, mass spectroscopy and monoclonal antibody production. HHMI operates an efficient, low cost oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis facility, which also performs DNA and protein sequencing. A wide variety of additional facilities are provided by Yale University including modern computer technology, access to the internet and excellent libraries.