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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TYGERBERG CAMPUS

Situated on Tygerberg Campus, Tygerberg, the Biomedical Research institute (BMRI) of Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences' is a self-driven hub of global excellence, serving as the launch pad for a number of ground-breaking medical and health sciences initiatives which has improved the lives of millions of people in South Africa and the rest of Africa. 

The BMRI houses leading South African researchers and students who are investigating diseases that have the greatest impact on South Africa and the rest of Africa in order to translate their discoveries into improving the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of illnesses such as tuberculosis, cardio-metabolic disease, HIV, diabetes and neurological disorders.

This state-of-the-art building is fitted with a fully-automated biorepository (BiOS) – the first in the Southern Hemisphere – which stores 3-5 million samples at –80°C. The BiOS is equipped with several backups in the event of power failure or loadshedding and around the clock monitoring system with alarms and alerts for temperature to ensure sample integrity. 

The BMRI also houses three modern BSL3 facilities, one of which is housed in the BMRI South building and is the largest in South Africa. These laboratories, which are accessed-controlled, are equipped with specialised equipment and strict working policies and procedures for working with dangerous pathogens that enable us to conduct our world-class infectious disease research.

Apart from a range of research laboratories, the BMRI is also host to a Bioinformatics hub, Electron microscopy labs, Proteomics and FACS labs, a Medical Morphology Learning Centre, the Sunskill lab, a Clinical research unit and Conference facilities. ​