Core Facilities

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School of Medicine

• µQUANT Facility
  Contact: Brian Taylor
  410-706-4648
  Office: IHV, N-562; Lab: S-632

• Biacore
  Contact: Yinghua Zhang, PhD
  410-706-2665
  Howard Hall, Rm. 421b
  biacore@umaryland.edu
  yzhan004@umaryland.edu 

• Biopolymer-Genomics Core
  Contact: Nick Ambulos
  410-706-8553
  Howard Hall, Rm. 560
  biopolym@umaryland.edu 

• BIORESCO (Freezer program)
  Contact: Carol McKissick
  410-706-0322
  Howard Hall, Rm. 664 
  freezer@umaryland.edu 

• Biostatistics
  Contact: Ming Tan
  410-706-8506
  MSTF, Room 261

• Clinical Research
  Contact: Ed Sausville
  410-328-7394
  UMMC, Rm. S9D07 
  Scientific Objectives, Services and Pricing  

• Comparative Medicine/Special Collaborations
  Contact: Dr. Louis DeTolla
  410-706-8537
  MSTF, Rm. G100
  detolla@vetmed.umaryland.edu  

• Confocal Microscopy
  Contact: Catherine Ann Kraft, Ph.D.
  410-706-0849
  Howard Hall, Room 431

• CTRIC (formerly Bioinformatics)
  Contact: Kate Tracy
  410-706-3461
  MSTF, Room 257

• Cytokine Lab
  Contact: Jeff Hasday
  410-706-1508
  MSTF, RM. 8-61

• Dermatopathology/Histology Lab
  Contact: April Deng
  410-328-6098
  405 W. Redwood St., 6th Fl.

• Edman Sequencing & Protein Analysis Core Facility (SOM/CVID)
  Contact: Brian Hampton
  Phone: 410-706-8207
  Fax: 410-706-8234
  Biopark I, Room 307

• Electronics and Machine Shop
  Contact: Dept. of Physiology
  410-706-7242
  machine@umaryland.edu or electron@umaryland.edu  

• Flow Cytometry (CVD)
  Contact: Marcelo Sztein
  410-706-5328
  HSF-I, Rm. 456

• Flow Cytometry (UMGCC)
  Contact: Ferenc Livak
  410-706-8120
  BRB, Rm. 7-046

• Fluorescence Spectroscopy
  Contact: Joseph R. Lakowicz, Director 
  410-706-8409
  Chris Geddes, Associate Director
  410-706-3149
  725 W. Lombard St.
  cfs@cfs.umbi.umd.edu  

• High Throughput Screening Core Facility (SOM)
  Contact: David Weber410-706-4354

• Histology Core Facility (SOM/CVID)
  Contact: Elizabeth Smith
  410-706-8185
  Biopark I, Room 330

• HIV Animal Models
  Contact: Joseph Bryant
  410-706-2754
  MRF, 1st Floor

• Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (SOM)
  Contact: Richard Y. Zhao
  410-706-630

• MRI
  Contact: Rao Gullapalli
  410-328-2099

• NICHD Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders
  Contact: H. Ronald Zielke
  410-706-1755
  BRB 13th floor   

• NMR
  Contact: Kristen Varney or David Weber
  Office: 410-706-4354; Labs: 410-706-2110, 410-706-6085, 410-706-8335)
  HSF-II Basement

• Office of Animal Welfare Assurance (OAWA)
  Contact: Angela Peiser
  410-706-4365
  HSF-I, Rm. 146

• Physiological Phenotyping Core (PPC) (formerly Small Animal Physiology)
  Contact: Dr. Ling Chen
  410-706-4920
  MSTF, Room 8-16
  Lchen@medicine.umaryland.edu 

• Protein Core (SOM/CVD)
  Contact: Keith G. Inman
  410-706-5335
  HSF-I, Room 433

• Proteomics
  Contact: Austin Yang 
  410-328-7588
  BRB, Rm. 7-033
  ayang@som.umaryland.edu 

• Tissue Bank – Brain (adult)
  Contact: Sharon Stilling, MBC administrator
  410-402-7119
  MPRC, Spring Grove Hospital, Catonsville
  sstilling@mprc.umaryland.edu  

• Tissue Bank (UMGCC)
  Contact: William Rodgers or John Cotrell
  410-328-5518
  UMMC, Rm. NBW46

• Transgenic, Knockout & Stem Cell Technology Core
  Contact: Valerie Stewart
  410-706-0454
  Howard Hall, Rm. 582

• Translational Core Facility (UMGCC)
  Contact: Joseph Bryant, Mariola Sadowska 

• Translational Research
  Contact: Rena Lapidus
  410-328-7462
  UMMC, 22 South Greene Street, Room N3E10

• X-ray Crystallography
  Contact: Eric Toth (SOM)
  410-706-5345
  Edwin Pozharski (SOP)
  410-706-1097
  HSF-II, room 516 

Other UMB Schools

• Cell Biological Core Facility (SON)
  Contact: Cynthia L. Renn
  410-706-5736

• Cellular Physiology Core Facility (SON)
  Contact: Chris Ward, Director
  410-706-3618
  Susan Dorsey, Co-Director
  410-706-7250

• Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery (SOP)
  Contact: Peter Swaan, Director
  410-706-0103
  HSF II, Room 64

• Clinical Pharmacology Unit (SOP) 
  Contact: Kenneth Bauer, Director
  410-706-3274
  Allied Health Building, Room 540

• Computer Aided Drug Design Center (SOP)
  Contact: Shijun Zhong; Alex MacKerell (Director)
  (410) 706-7442

• Confocal Microscopy Core Facility (SOP)
  Contact: Peter Swaan, Director
  410-706-0103
  HSF II, Room 648
  pswaan@rx.umaryland.edu  

• Electron Microscopy (SOD)
  Contact: Ru-ching Hsia
  410-706-7992
  Dental School, 650 W. Baltimore St.

• Imaging Core (SON)
  Contact: Chris Ward
  410-706-3618

• Industrial Pharmaceutics Laboratory (SOP)
  Contact: Stephen Hoag, Director
  410-706-6865
  Pharmacy Hall, Room 620

• Mass Spectrometry Core Facility (SOP)
  Contact: Peter Swaan, Director
  (410) 706-0103
  HSF II, Room 648
  pswaan@rx.umaryland.edu  

• Molecular Biology/Functional Genomics Core Facility (SON) 

• Mouse Functional and Behavioral Core Facility (SON)
  Contact: Susan Dorsey, Director
  410-706-7250
  School of Nursing, Room 764

• Pharmaceutical Research Computing (SOP)
  Contact: Ilene Zuckerman
  410-706-3266
  Health Services Research, Saratoga Street Garage

• Pharmacokinetics Biopharmaceutics Laboratory (SOP)
  Contact: Natalie Eddington, Director
  410-706-6710
  Pharmacy Hall, Room 730