Primary Research Group Inc., has published the International Survey of Medical & Other Life Sciences Faculty: Satisfaction with Wet Lab Facilities, ISBN 978-1-57440-468-5

The study presents highly detailed data about what faculty think of a broad range of facilities and services in their wet labs, including but not restricted to: provisions for piping gases, contamination control, fire safety, hoods, ventilation, environmental control, dust and particle control, lighting, shelving and storage, information technology, recharging for mobile devices, waste disposal, animal control, eye bath and showers, testing and incubation chambers, refrigeration, documentation software and much more.  Respondents also specify what they would most like to see added to or upgraded in their wet labs.

The 150-page report presents data from a survey of 180 medical and life sciences faculty from more than 50 research universities and medical schools in the USA, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ireland. 

Data is broken out by more than 10 criteria, and is presented separately for public and private universities, by age, gender, academic title, country, and academic field of faculty, and by university ranking, level of tuition and other institutional variables.

Just a few of the report’s main findings are that:

• 17.42% of those sampled are highly satisfied with the quality of air ventilation in their wet labs.
• Only 12.2% of survey participants from universities ranked in the bottom quartile in university rankings were highly satisfied with the quality of lighting in their wet labs.
• Only 11.49% of those sampled are highly satisfied with the quality of dust and particle control in their wet labs.
• 28.16% of survey participants awarded their labs a grade of “A” for their overall quality.
• More than 29% of postdocs but only 14.29% of professors were highly satisfied with the moisture control capabilities in their wet labs.

Survey participants came from the following universities:

Baylor College of Medicine

Brown University

Carnegie Mellon University

Columbia University

Curtin University

Drexel University

Emory University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Griffith University

Imperial College London

James Cook University

Massey University

McGill University

Monash University

Penn State University

Princeton University

Rice University

Rutgers University

Saint Louis University

Swinburne University of Technology

The University of Western Australia

University of California, Davis

University College Dublin

University of Alberta

University of Birmingham

University of California Santa Barbara

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Riverside

University of Chicago

University of Connecticut

University of Florida

University of Leeds

University of Michigan

University of Missouri

University of Nottingham

University of Reading

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

University of Toronto

University of Utah

UWA

Virginia Commonwealth Unive