The opening of the Biosciences Institute in 2002 expanded the research capabilities of the department, increasing dramatically the number of postgraduate research students and offering a BSc degree in Neuroscience, the first in Ireland.
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New laboratories allowed the expansion of its imaging facilities and today, in addition to being a busy research department, the Department of Anatomy runs a state of the art microscopy and analysis facility in its Imaging Centre, offering microscopy expertise to other departments and industry.
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In September 2011 under the direction of Professor John Cryan the department relocated its undergraduate teaching to the Western Gate Building. The teaching of Anatomy in UCC’s Windle Building had come to an end with the Department’s move to its new state of the art laboratories in the Western Gate Building.
Photograph of the last students in the Windle Building Dissecting room September 2011
For thousands of medical and dental students Anatomy teaching had been synonymous with the neo-Gothic Windle building named after Professor Bertram Windle former Chair of Anatomy and President of the then Queen's College Cork. Professor John F. Cryan who recently took up the post of Chair of Anatomy described the move as "a truly momentous day for the department and for the Medical School in general; it is not just the end of an era but also the beginning of a very exciting episode in the modernisation of the department and discipline in general."
Windle Building front, lecture theatre and FLAME sculpture
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This is a landmark time in the Department’s history as it has recently moved to its new teaching and research facilities in the Western Gateway Building.
This new state of the art facility offers huge potential for further development of teaching and research in the Department. Moreover, changes in medical education and advances in Medical Imaging are changing the landscape of how Anatomy is taught in professional programmes
The FLAME Laboratory takes its name from the sculpture Flame which was commissioned in recognition of the altruism of those who donate their bodies for medical education and research. FLAME is an acronym for Facility for Learning Anatomy Morphology and Embryology. FLAME is the title of a piece of specially commissioned sculpture by the late artist Alexandra Wejchert. The sculpture represents the flame of knowledge which leads to the light of understanding.
Room 2.33, 2nd Floor, Western Gateway Building, University College, Cork, Ireland
