Search for Shared Facilities
VP&S Institutional Cores provide scientific services to all Columbia researchers (and external partners), while Departmental Resources may provide more technically specialized or limited-access services. Toggle between these resource types and/or resource categories below.
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Aaron DIamond AIDS Research Center
The ADARC BSL-3 facility allows users to culture cells and process animal and human tissues that require biosafety level 3 containment.
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School of Engineering and Applied Science
Equipped for research in all types of engineering materials and structural elements as well as damage detection, fatigue, vibrations, and sensor networks. Also has a fully outfitted machine shop.
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Irving Institute and the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)
The CDW contains information for individuals treated at CUIMC since the 1980s. With IRB approval, navigators can help with requests for counts or cohort definition; physician orders; lab reports; etc.
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Chunhua Weng, PhD, Soumitra Sengupta, PhD, and Karthik Natarajan, PhD
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Columbia Nano Initiative
Maintains a wide range of micro and nanofabrication processing, characterization, and imaging instruments. Includes a Fabrication Room, Material Characterization Lab, and Electron Microscopy Lab.
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Institute of Comparative Medicine (ICM)
Veterinary services: anatomic & histopathology; complete blood count; clinical chemistry, coagulation, & blood gas panels; parasitology; microbiology testing; cell line testing; histomorphometry.
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Brian Karolewski, VMD, PhD, DACLAM
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Diabetes Research Center (DRC)
Provides a Mouse Metabolic Function and Phenotyping Core and assists with experimental design, analysis, and training to analyze pathology, imaging, and flow cytometry data for diabetes research.
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The DLDRC provides access to bioinformatics & single cell analysis, bioimaging, organoid models, repositories for cell lines, 3D cell culture platforms, biospecimens from GI tract & liver.
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Acquires high resolution images of whole tissue slides using Aperio AT2 brightfield & Aperio Versa8 fluorescence scanners. Software: eSlide Manager, ImageScope, HALO Image Analysis, Visiopharm, Qupath
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center
CUIMC provides upright, shelved -80Ā°C freezers for the research community to use during a freezer failure while their freezer is being repaired or replaced.
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The Robert N Butler Columbia Aging Center
GCC provides consultation,analysis,computational support,and data resources to integrate aging biomarkers into cohort studies, clinical trials, and electronic health records for researchers at CUIMC.
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Columbia Center for Translational Immunology (CCTI); Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC)
Using cutting-edge technologies, this core provides top-quality, cost-effective services for deep, comprehensive, multi-omics immune profiling and monitoring.
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Arts and Sciences
Users can monitor reactions by SFC-MS or TLC-MS, identify isolated products by direct injection of solutions, and characterize large molecules with the MALDI TOF. Two instruments support imaging.
Leadership
Fereshteh Zandkarimi, PhD
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Arts and Sciences
The center has six Bruker NMR instruments, Avance III 300, DRX 300, Avance III 400, Avance III 400SL (for solids and liquids), Avance III 500, and Avance III 500 /w Ascend magnet.
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Arts and Sciences
Provides access to biophysical and biochemical instrumentation focused on the study of conformations, activities, and assembly of biological and other macromolecules.
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Arts and Sciences
Focused on identification of proteins and metabolites with differential quantitative expression in cells, tissues or in affinity purifications. Particular emphasis on posttranslational modifications.
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Dermatology: Skin Disease Resource-based Center (epiCURE)
Facilitates imaging and phenotyping, use of experimental models for identification and preclinical proof of concept studies, and design of clinical trials to enable skin-focused research.
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Mailman School of Public Health
Analyzes biological samples for metals including: lead, mercury, arsenic, iron, manganese, cadmium, copper, zinc, chromium, sodium, cobalt, platinum, and potassium.
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