The Emerging Life Science Block houses the specialized research facility of the University known as the Central Instrumentation Facility. This facility promotes the interdisciplinary approach in research among the various faculties in the University as well as from other academic research institutes and/or industries in and around the Punjab region.

The foundation stone of ‘Emerging Life Science Block’ was laid by Prof. Richard R. Ernst, Noble Laureate (who revolutionized the NMR spectroscopy) in the year 2011. More than 60 State of the art instruments are currently present in the central facility and these were purchased with the grant of INR 50.00 crore conferred by UGC after the status of University with Potential for Excellence (UPE) was given to Guru Nanak Dev University.

Salient features of this central facility are

• Each instrument has a teacher in-charge who is responsible for the maintenance and working of the machine.
• The instruments are open to all the faculty members of the University.
• The facility is open 24 hours and 7 days in a week for use.
• Most of the instruments are operated by the students.
• Continuous power supply.
• Each instrument is having UPS backup and the whole building has automated power backup from the generator which starts automatically on power failure.
• A separate grant is created by the University for the Maintenance of the instruments.