New Technologies for Translational Research

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New TechnologiesforTranslational Research
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The Role of Cores in Scientific Institutions
The Scientist, Oct. 20, 2003 p. 17-21
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Criteria for Best Places to Work
1. Collegial relationships 2. Adequate Core
Facilities 3. Fill funding gaps to maintain
research 4. Fair pay, fair negotiations 5.
Health and retirement benefits 6. Mentoring 7.
Academic Freedom
Importance
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White Paper on Core Facilities (RAC,1996)

• Cores maximize research productivity
• Multiplier effect- cores are becoming more
  important for competitive grant funding
• Cores can promote interactions amongst users
• Cores Enhance Scope and Quality of Research
• make technologies widely available brings new
  approaches into an existing field

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Service Core Laboratories
Bioinformatics Molecular Biology Training
Lab Biosafety Level 4 Lab Recombinant
DNA Biostatistics Recombinant
Lab Biomolecular Resource Facility Molecular
Genomics Protein Chemistry Lab Parallel
Synthesis Facility Protein Expression
Lab Research Technology Support Mass Spec.
Facility SCCB Real Time PCR Core Flow
Cytometry/Cell Sorting SCSB Cores GCRC Comput
ational Chemistry Core Lab Macromolecular
Assembly Body Imaging Core Membrane Protein
Lab Investigational ICU NMR Core
Immunohistochemistry X-Ray
Crystallography Optical Imaging Core
(OIC) Synthetic Organic Chemistry Optical Imaging
Lab (OIL) Transgenic Mouse Core
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Bioinformatics Program
Center for Biodefense
Neurosciences
GI Research Program
Center
SCMS
HHMI- Membrane Protein Program
SCSB
Environmental Health Medicine
NIEHS Center
SCOH/ SCCCB
Protein Chemistry
Macromolecular Assembly
Computational Biology
Membrane Protein Laboratory
BSL4
Cores
Molecular Biology/ RDL
Protein Expression
Bioinformatics
Molecular Genomics
Transgenics/ Gene Knockout
X-Ray NMR
Immuno- histochemistry
RT-PCR
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New Technologies

• Genomics
• Tom Wood, Ph.D.
• Bioinformatics
• Bruce Luxon, Ph.D.
• Proteomics
• Alex Kurosky, Ph.D.
• Parallel Synthesis
• Scott Gilbertson, Ph.D.
• General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)
• Don Powell, M.D.