Although it has just been recently formally launched in October 2019, PGC Mindanao has already started operating since February in the same year, focusing on equipment procurement, networking for collaboration and on promotional activities. Dr. Saloma said that in a short span of time, capacity in genomics research has increased through the establishment of the Philippine Genome Center Satellite Facility in UP Mindanao, as well as “the flurry of collaborative research proposals and anchor projects that have been funded or are under funding consideration.”
Currently, the PGC Mindanao office is temporarily housed in the CSM building inside the UPMin campus. But all of the PGC Min facilities will be eventually transferred, together with other related research projects in the university, to the future Research, Development and Extension (RDE) building which will be built in the UPMin campus also. The to-be-constructed RDE building is funded by the UP System and is worth P80-million.
