INFORMM in Kelantan is a conjoined triplets of two two-storey building with a laboratory build-up area of approximately 24,000 sq. ft. The oldest building which was completed in 2004 locates the administrative and academic offices, postgraduate discourse room as well as a spacious tutorial room on the first floor. The ground floor of the building consists of designated laboratories for cell culture (BSL2: dedicated for mammalian cell culture e.g. cancer cells), sequencing (genetic analyser and pyrosequencing), and genomics (thermal cyclers and real-time PCR). Importantly, the ground floor of the building locates our In-Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Unit, a facility for the production of lateral flow assay-based diagnostic kit certified by ISO 13485:2016 (Medical Device).
In the second building which was completed in 2015, the ground floor consists of a cell culture facility (BSL2 but is dedicated more for bacterial cultures) and open benches mainly utilized for proteomic works. The first floor of the building has open benches for genomic-related activities, but this area is mainly utilized for training activities such as workshops and lab demonstrations.
The youngest building completed in 2018 consists of open benches for genomic and proteomic works, facilitating the Advanced Technology group at INFORMM Kelantan. The ground floor of the building is another facility designated for diagnostic prototype development (more for research purposes).
