The YCHRC is located in the recently renovated SEAMCO Building at 464 Congress Ave, New Haven, CT. Within the YCHRC are more than 6,000 square feet of research laboratory and research support space. In addition, there is an additional 2,000 square feet of office and conference space.

The YCHCH contains core facilities that are used by the Yale Department of Pediatrics and other investigators in the Yale research community. The YCHRC has core tissue culture facilities, dark room, cold rooms, and major equipment suites. The center is fully equipped to developmental biology, neurology, molecular biology, genomic and biochemistry research.

Yale University has core transgenic, histology, and molecular biology centers. Yale University has a complete line of technical shops.

Within the YCHRC are: Pharmacia HPLC chromatography system, ABI oligonucleotide synthesizer, Perkin Elmer PCR thermal cyclers, Beckman ultracentrifuge, vacuum oven, Sorval high speed centrifuge, spectrophotometer, scintillation counter, gamma counter, speed vacs, 80 C freezers, liquid nitrogen tanks, microwave ovens, tissue culture incubators, UV viewbox, X OMAT film processor, bright field and phase contrast microscopes, Olympus confocal microscope, multiple CO2 incubators, shaking water baths, gel electrophoresis equipment, chromatography columns, Olympus florescent microscope, Reichert-Jung cryostat, and a Leica image analysis system.

We are also the home of the Fannie E. Rippel Foudnation Cellular Imaging Facility, which supports confocal microscopy work used to examine cellular structure and function.