The ERC for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC), a joint ERC of Georgia Tech and Emory University (EEC 9731643), is headquartered in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), a new, $30 million facility which includes an additional $1.5 million 7,000 square foot vivarium. Many additional important core facilities are available within IBB. The ERC has a strong relationship with the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, a relationship that allows the testing of tissue models, when appropriate, in primate hosts. Much work is done at the non-clinical research laboratories within both the Emory School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Hospital and at operating suites at Emory University Hospital. GTEC facilities within IBB are shared by all faculty and students within IBB, both GTEC and others and GTEC personnel share use of Emory facilities with other researchers throughout the Emory community. GTEC has spent approximately $3,600,000 on equipment and facilities during the three years of the ERC funding. These expenditures included the vivarium ($1.5 million), flow cytometer, gamma counter, Beckman Coulter multisizer, microplate reader, sequence detector, CCD Imaging System, histology equipment, confocal microscope, and many other pieces of equipment purchased both for the Georgia Tech labs and the Emory labs.