Vascular Biology Facilities

The University of Virginia Medical School subsidizes a Core Laboratory Program that is a day-to-day research and training resource for our fellows and includes: 

  1. The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library consists of more the 3,000,000 books and 10,000,000 manuscripts.  It also maintains and supports Ovid and PubMed for literature searches and offers courses in Excel, PowerPoint, and other software used in scientific training. 

  2. Information Technology & Communications (ITC) The Research Computing Support Group of the Computing Support Division of ITC provides technologically advanced computing support to facilitate research at the University of Virginia. This support encompasses in-depth consulting services as well as targeted training programs in response to research and instructional needs.

  3. Tissue Culture Core provides media, stored cell line, training in tissue culture methods and transfection. 

  4. Advanced Microscopy Facility provides access to and instruction in tissue embedding, sectioning, staining, and operating transmission and scanning electron microscopes and confocal microscopes.  TOP

  5. Hybridoma Core provides facilities for generating hybridomas and for isolating momoclonal antibodies.

  6. Biomolecular Research Facility is divided into two program areas: The Mass spectrometry/Proteomics area supports experimentation in protein identification, post-translational modification analysis, binding partner/complex mixture analysis and quantitative mass spectrometry utilizing iTRAQ and SILAC approaches.  The DNA Sciences Laboratory offers gene expression profiling by Affymetrix platforms, genomic analysis using a Solexa analyzer and DNA sequencing.

  7. Radioimmunoassay Core provides standardized assays for measurement of cAMP, cGMP, insulin, etc.. as well as HPLC.  It also provides instrruction in the set-up, standardization, and validation of RIA and ELISA. 

  8. Flow Cytometry offers facilities for both cell sorting and FACS analysis.  TOP