Core Facilities
Advanced technologies. Service-oriented science. Accelerated discovery.
Built for ambitious research
Investigators at UofL have access to a broad range of core facilities spanning the biomedical sciences, engineering and other disciplines.
Core facilities are specialized research laboratories staffed by skilled, dedicated scientific personnel and equipped with sophisticated instrumentation, providing researchers across the university with advanced research services and direct equipment access to pursue ambitious research. Many cores also welcome external users, including academic researchers and industry partners.
The strategic research infrastructure division of the Office of Research and Innovation partners with units across the university to build, coordinate and strengthen core facilities as foundational components of UofL’s research infrastructure.
Louisville Research Cores
Additional Core Facilities
Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science and Technology
The Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science and Technology (AMIST) Core provides 3D printing and prototyping services for research and manufacturing with emphasis on laser and e-beam powder bed processes for metals, plastics, and ceramics.
Bioanalytical Core
The Bioanalytical Core provides high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry services for clinical, preclinical, and environmental studies.
Bioinformatics Core
The Bioinformatics Core (in the Brown Cancer Center) empowers cancer research by providing data analysis, computational biology, and statistical tools to help researchers navigate complex biological datasets.
Biostatistics Core
The Biostatistics Core (in the Brown Cancer Center) provides experimental design, data analysis, and statistical support for clinical trials and high-dimensional data studies.
Biostatistics & Informatics Core Facility
The Biostatistics and Informatics Core (in the Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences, CIEHS) provides biostatistics, bioinformatics, and multi-omics data integration for environmental health research, including study design and investigator training.
Center for Predictive Medicine Shared Resource
The Center for Predictive Medicine (CPM) Shared Resource provides BSL2 and BSL3 biocontainment facilities for pathogen research, offering microbiology, immunology, and bio-imaging services to support in vivo and in vitro studies.
Center for Regulatory and Environmental Analytical Metabolomics
Center for Regulatory and Environmental Analytical Metabolomics (CREAM) provides metabolomics, lipidomics, and epitranscriptomics services using advanced mass spectrometry platforms including LC-MS, GC-MS, and stable isotope resolved metabolomics.
Clinical Trials Unit
The Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) is a central research unit that provides services to investigators, sponsors, and research staff conducting clinical research trials.
Data Science and Bioinformatics Core
The Data Science and Bioinformatics Core (in KY INBRE) offers fee-based high-throughput sequencing analysis services with expertise in computational and wetlab approaches.
Exposures and Toxicology Core
The Exposures and Toxicology Core provides access to controlled inhalation exposure experiments using a range of toxicant aerosols and gases, along with physiological monitoring.
Flow Cytometry Core
The Health Sciences Center (HSC) Flow Cytometry Core provides flow cytometry training, data acquisition, and multi-parameter cell sorting services.
Functional Immunomics Core
The Functional Immunomics Core provides CyTOF mass cytometry for high-parameter single-cell analysis, Hyperion imaging mass cytometry for spatial tissue profiling, and cell sorting with biological containment capabilities.
Functional Microbiomics Core
The Functional Microbiomics Core is an integrated resource for microbiome research, providing germ-free and gnotobiotic mouse facilities, metagenomic sequencing with bioinformatics, and inflammatory-marker and histopathology analysis.
Genomics Training and Education Center
The Genomics Training and Education Center (GTEC) provides genomics training, workshops, access to instrumentation, and support for data analysis and interpretation to help researchers, staff, and students develop genomics research skills and expertise.
In Vivo Molecular Imaging Facility
The In Vivo Molecular Imaging Facility provides comprehensive non-invasive imaging of small animals using optical, MRI, PET, and CT modalities to support research across disease models.
Magnetic Resonance Research Facility
The Magnetic Resonance Research Facility is equipped with a research-dedicated Siemens 3T MRI system supporting neuroimaging and functional MRI.
Materials & Energy Technology Service Center
The Materials and Energy Technology Service Center provides comprehensive materials characterization using microscopy, spectroscopy, and diffraction tools for inorganic and soft materials, supporting academic and industry research.
Metabolic Profiling Core
The Metabolic Profiling Core provides flow cytometry, extracellular flux analysis, whole animal metabolic profiling, and polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism analysis.
Metallomics Core
The Metallomics Core provides inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) analysis for multiple metals in clinical, animal, environmental, and food samples.
Microscopy & Pathology Core
The Microscopy & Pathology Core provides confocal/multiphoton microscopy, automated fluorescence imaging, AFM nanomechanics, and complete pathology workflows with expert support for experimental design, training, and analysis.
Statistical Consulting Service
The Statistical Consulting Service provides biostatistical expertise for research support, including experimental design, power and sample size calculation, data management, statistical analysis and modeling, and technical report writing.
Systems Physiology & Phenotyping Core
The Systems Physiology & Phenotyping Core provides in vivo animal surgeries and cardiovascular models with ultrasound imaging, invasive hemodynamics, electrophysiology, radiotelemetry, and metabolic phenotyping.