Core and Shared Facilities

Columbia has many cutting-edge research facilities that are designed to provide investigators with shared access to technically specialized services and high-end instrumentation. The Office for Research has designated facilities with high user satisfaction and open-access policies for Columbia investigators as "Core Facilities" on our website. You can search for these facilities below. Alternatively, internal users can search for iLab core services and pricing by logging into iLab.

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  • Magnetic Resonance (MR) Core

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Mortimer B. Zucker­man Mind Brain Behavior Institute (ZMBBI)

    The Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute is home to three new, state-of-the-art, research-grade MR systems and the laboratories and staff to support their application.

    Director

    J. Thomas Vaughan

    Contact

    Edward Coogan
    Jerome L. Greene Science Center, SC4
    3227 Broadway
    New York, NY 10027
    United States

  • Mass Spectrometry (Chemistry)

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Arts and Sciences

    Users can monitor reaction progress by SFC-MS or TLC-MS, identify isolated products by direct injection of solutions, and characterize large molecules, polymers, and biomolecules with the MALDI TOF.

    Contact

    Brandon Fowler
    Havemeyer Hall, 544
    3000 Broadway
    New York, NY 10027
    United States

  • Microbiome Core

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Medicine

    The goal of the Microbiome Core is to facilitate microbiome studies for researchers at CUMC.

    Director

    Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD

    Contact

    Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD
    Physicians & Surgeons, 9-428
    630 West 168th Street
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

  • Microscopy Core

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Microbiology and Immunology

    The Microbiology & Immunology microscope facility has a state-of-the-art Zeiss LSM710 ConfoCorr Confocal Imaging Microscope System, and two epi-fluorescent microscopes.

    Director

    Nicholas Arpaia, PhD

    Contact

    Amir Figueroa
    Hammer Health Science Center, 12th Floor
    701 West 168th Street
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

  • Molecular Biology Molecular Genetics Core (Nutrition)

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center

    Assists investigators in applying technologies of molecular genetics and genomics to the study of obesity. Provides consultation, standard lab services, and developmental support for research tools.

    Director

    Wendy Chung, MD, PhD

    Contact

    Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
    Russ Berrie, 620
    1150 Saint Nicholas Avenue
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

  • Molecular Cytogenetics

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC)

    The HICCC Molecular Cytogenetics Shared Resource provides classical cytogenetic services as well as state of the art modern DNA damage and DNA repair assays.

    Director

    Shan Zha, MD, PhD

    Contact

    Wenxia (Wendy) Jiang, PhD
    Irving Cancer Research Center, 605
    1130 Saint Nicholas Avenue
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

  • Molecular Pathology

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC)

    The Molecular Pathology Shared Resource facilitates tissue based, human and experimental, basic science and translational cancer research.

    Director

    Hanina Hibshoosh, MD

    Contact

    Sun Dajiang (Kevin)
    Black Building, 455
    650 West 168th Street
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

  • Mouse Metabolic Function and Phenotyping Core (Diabetes)

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Diabetes Research Center (DRC)

    The Mouse Metabolic Phenotype & Function Core currently provides services that facilitate the efficient characterization of mouse models of diabetes and its complications.

    Director

    Anthony Ferrante, MD, PhD

    Contact

    Jun Feranil, PhD
    Russ Berrie, 704
    1150 Saint Nicholas Avenue
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

  • Mouse Neurobehavioral Core

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM)

    The Mouse NeuroBehavior Core is a centralized mouse behavioral testing facility equipped to test a wide range of behavioral phenotypes in mouse models of CNS diseases.

    Director

    Mu Yang, PhD

    Contact

    Mu Yang, PhD
    Physicians & Surgeons
    630 West 168th Street
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

  • MRI Center

    Core Facility

    Affiliation

    Radiology

    The MRI Center in the Department of Radiology is one of three sites using magnetic resonance (MR) for research at Columbia University.

    Director

    J. Thomas Vaughan, PhD

    Contact

    J. Thomas Vaughan
    Neurological Institute, Basement Level
    710 West 168th Street
    New York, NY 10032
    United States

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