CORES

Animal Model Resource

• Small Animal Surgery and Physiology (SASP) Core 
• Transgenic Resources
• Translational Laboratory Shared Services (TLSS)
• Veterinary Resources (VR)

Bioinformatics & Statistics

• Biostatistics and Informatics Core (UMGCCBIOSTATS)
• Center for Health-Related Informatics and Bioimaging  (CHIB)
• Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Center (CTRIC)
• Maryland Genomics *CLIA 
• Pharmaceutical Research Computing

Clinical Resource

• Amish Research Center (ARC) 
• Brain and Tissue Bank (BTB)
• Cytogenetics Laboratory *CLIA
• General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)  
• Pathology Histology (PHC) 
• Pathology Biorepository Shared Services (PBSS)
• Pediatric Biochemical Genetics *CLIA
• Maryland Genommics *CLIA
• Translational Genomics Laboratory (TGL) *CLIA 
• Translational Laboratory Shared Services (TLSS) 
• UMM Biorepository (UMM_BIOBANK) 

Cytometric & Bioassay

• Cytokine Core Laboratory (CCL) 
• Flow Cytometry Core (FCC)  
• Mass and Flow Cytometry Core (CVD FLOW)  
• Red Blood Cell (RBC) Physiology and Hemostasis Core
• BSL-3 (Infectious Cells) FLow Cytometry
• μQUANT Facility

Drug Development Resource

• Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery
• Clinical Pharmacology Unit 
• Computer Aided Drug Design Center 
• Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT) NMR | CryoEM | Xray Crystallography | & More 
• Industrial Pharmaceutics & GMP Manufacturing Lab
• Nanofabrication and Characterization Core
• Pharmacokinetics Biopharmaceutics Lab
• Quality Management System (QMS) 

Imaging Technologies

• Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT) NMR | CryoEM | Xray Crystallography | & More
• Center for Translational Research in Imaging (CTRIM) MRI | PET-CT | Xenogen | MR-Guided Ultrasound 
• Confocal Microscopy Core (CMC)
• Electron Microscopy Core (EMC)

Nucleic Acid & Genomic

• Cytogenetics Laboratory *CLIA
• Maryland Genomics *CLIA 
• Translational Genomics Lab (TGL) *CLIA 
• Virus Vector Core (VVC) 

Structural Biology

• Biosensor Core (BSC) 
• Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT) NMR | CryoEM | Xray Crystallography | & More 
• Mass Spectrometry Core (MS)  
• Protein Analysis Lab 

Other Resources

• BIORESCO (Biomedical Research Supply Core)
• HS/HSL Innovation Space (3D Printing)
• Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR)
• Quality Management System (QMS) 

Amish Research Center (ARC)
Dr. Alan Shuldiner
Dr. Braxton Mitchell

Biosensor Core (BSC)
Dr. Robert J. Bloch
Dr. Yinghua Zhang

Biostatistics and Informatics Core (UMGCCCBIOSTATS)
Dr. Soren Benson

Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT) 
NMR | CryoEM | Xray Crystallography | & More
Dr. David Weber

Center for Translational Research in Imaging (CTRIM)
MRI | PET-CT | Xenogen | MRI-Guided Ultrasound
Dr. Rao Gullapalli

Confocal Microscopy Core (CMC)
Dr Thomas Blanpied
Dr. Joseph Mauban

Clinical & Translational Research Informatics Center (CTRIC)
Dr. Kathleen Tracy

Cytokine Core Lab (CCL)
Dr. Jeffrey Hasday
Lisa Hester

Electron Microscopy Core (EMC) 
Dr. Christine Brantner

Flow Cytometry Core (FCC)
Dr. Xiaoxuan Fan

Flow & Mass Cytometry  Core (CVD_FLOW)
Dr. Marcelo Sztein
Regina Harley

General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)
Dr. Stephen Davis
Meghan Banchero

Mass Spectrometry Core (MS) 
Dr. Maureen Kane
Jace Jones

Pathology Histology Core (PHC)
Clinical reference lab managed by Pathology Dept.
Perry Comegys & Norma Colocho

Pathology Biorepository Shared Services (PBSS)
Dr. Olga Ioffe

Quality Management System (QMS)
Karen Hughes, Test Facility Manager
Michelle Ross, Director of Quality Assurance
Susan Messics, Manager of Document Control

Translational Genomics Core (TGL) *CLIA
Dr. Nicholas Ambulos

Translational Laboratory Shared Service (TLSS)
Dr. Rena Lapidus

UMMS Biorepository (UMMS_BIOBANK)
Dr. Coleen Damcott

Virus Vector Core (VVC)
Dr. Ramesh Chandra