Nelson Biological Laboratories

Nelson Laboratories is the home of the Rutgers University Division of Life Sciences It houses the Departments of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Genetics, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, the Bureau of Biological Research, The Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience,  the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository and Graduate and Undergraduate Offices for the Division

Built in 1962 with funds appropriated from the State of New Jersey and Grants awarded to the Bureau of Biological Research from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and New Jersey Corporations.  Nelson Laboratories was named for Professors Julius and Thurlow Nelson, whose pioneering work in the Life Sciences at Rutgers spanned from 1888 to 1956.

Professors Julius and Thurlow Nelson