Genetic Medicine Building

In early 2005, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine broke ground on a new, 300,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art research facility. The Genetic Medicine Building, completed in 2008, is located off Mason Farm Road, just east of the Environmental Protection Agency building.

Researchers in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy occupy approximately 75,000 square feet of laboratory space on the first and second floors, allowing them to work closely with their colleagues in Medicine and giving Pharmacy a strong presence in the heart of Carolina’s health sciences campus. The building is home to three of the School's research centers: UNC Institute of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, and the Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery.

Each of the GMB’s seven floors has a footprint of about one acre. The two lower floors house vivaria, and the five above-ground floors house faculty and staff.

The labs in the GMB are shared, open labs that are typically 10,000 to 12,000 square feet and contain seating areas for lab personnel, lab bench areas, fume hood rooms, tissue culture rooms, equipment rooms and cold rooms.

The center of the building provides space for some shared equipment, microscopy rooms, dark rooms, autoclaves, limited additional freezer storage, chemical storage, and meeting rooms. A space for a small nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer is located on the first floor. The entire building is supplied with emergency power.