CORES

Animal Model Resource

• Musculoskeletal Physiology Service Center
• Small Animal Surgery and Physiology (SASP) Core  
• 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 
• Optum Labs Core
• 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 Genomics *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 
• Applied Pharmaceutics Lab (APhL)
• 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 
• Viral Vector Core (VVC)

Structural Biology

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

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

Musculoskeletal Physiology Service Center
Dr. Chris Ward
Dr. Joseph Stains

Nanofabrication and Characterization Core
Dr. Regina Adão

Optum Labs Core
Dr. Rozalina McCoy

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

Red Blood Cell (RBC) Physiology and Hemostasis Core
Dr. Stephen Rogers

Small Animal Surgery and Physiology (SASP) Core
Dr. Qihong Wang

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

Translational Laboratory Shared Service (TLSS)
Dr. Rena Lapidus

UMMS Biorepository (UMMS_BIOBANK)
Dr. Coleen Damcott

Viral Vector Core (VVC)
Dr. Ramesh Chandra