Core Facilities

Our school’s shared core instrumentation and transgenic animal facilities support studies by UB faculty and investigators at our affiliated institutions. These facilities house state-of-the-art equipment and enable cutting-edge research.

Researchers in our division make particular use of facilities including:

  • Clinical Research Center
    11/24/20
    Features state-of-the-art imaging equipment dedicated to clinical and translational research, including MRI, CT and PET/CT scanners.
  • Confocal Microscope and Flow Cytometry Facility
    11/7/23
    The Confocal Microscope and Flow Cytometry Facility (CMFCF) is a Dept. Pathology and Anatomical Sciences (PAS) service center serving the researchers in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences as well as the scientists located on the South and North Campus’s at the University at Buffalo.  We are part of the Health Sciences Collaborative Core Facilities and work closely with other PAS cores as well as the core facilities in the School of Dental Medicine to provide comprehensive and integrative services to solve the imaging and cytometry challenges presented by cutting-edge research programs.  The imaging and cytometry instrumentation installed in the new Jacobs School of Medicine site are the latest, state of art flow cytometers and optical microscopes.
  • CTSI Translational Imaging Center
    6/18/20
    Features state-of-the-art imaging equipment dedicated to clinical and translational research, including MRI, CT and PET/CT scanners.
  • Electron Microscopy Core Lab
    6/18/20
    Enables researchers to obtain transmission electron microscope images of materials, polymers and biological samples; consults with investigators and assists with equipment operation.
  • Histology Core
    8/16/23
    Performs all procedures related to tissue preservation and histological analysis, including training on cryostat use and other protocols.
  • Institute for Health Informatics
    3/25/24
    Equips researchers with a HIPAA-compliant computing environment, healthcare datasets and analytic and security consulting.
  • Next-Generation Sequencing and Expression
    3/22/20
    Offers high-throughput, next-generation sequencing and gene-expression analysis services, including 3’-expression, miRNA, exon and gene arrays.
  • Proteomics/Mass Spectrometry
    6/18/20
    Identifies proteins in cell or tissue extracts using several different liquid chromotography/mass spectrometry based approaches.
  • shRNA Resource
    8/5/19
    Supports investigators interested in gene transfer using viral vector technologies.