Surya Mallapragada’s laboratories are housed in the Nanovaccine Institute, a new state-of-the-art facility for interdisciplinary research in this area that brings together collaborators from engineering and the life sciences. In addition to wet lab space, the facility has a Nanomaterials core housing various biomaterials characterization methods, a Protein core for biomolecule characterization, and a tissue culture room for mammalian cell culture, among other facilities.