CIBR: Center for Innovative Biomedical Resources
Location of Core Instruments & Services

The table below can be sorted by Cores and Building by clicking their column heading. Building Addresses are below the table.

Cores Building Room Instruments/Services
Biomedical Research Supply Core (BIORESCO) MSTF Room 166 1-stop shop for all your research supply needs.
Biosensor Core Health Sciences Facility II 611 Biacore T200. Determine molecular binding.
Biostatistics & Informatics Core Howard Hall 109 Pre and post award biostatistical services.
Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT) Health Sciences Facility II SB12 NMR, 600, NMR 800, NMR 950
Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT) UM - Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology Research Rm B109 NMR 400, Cryo-EM, X-Ray Crystallography
Translational Research in Imaging (CTRIM) Howard Hall 645 Pre-Clinical Imaging; Tesla Small Animal MRI Scanner; Xenogen IVS Imaging; microCT scanner; small animal PET/CT Imaging; MRI-guided focused ultrasound
Translational Research in Imaging (CTRIM) Health Sciences Facility III L129 Human Imaging: MRI/PET Whole Body Scanner; Tesla MRI Scanner
Clinical Pharmacology Unit School of Pharmacy Contact for room Protocol design and review, Dosing plans, Subject recruitment, Interpretation of PK (pharmacokinetic)/ PD (pharmacodynamic) from phase I-IV trial sample data
Clinical & Translational Research Informatics Center (CTRIC) Howard Hall 124 Research design, Data management, Quality Assurance, Data anlysis
Computer Aided Drug Design Center Health Sciences Facility II 633 Fosters collaborative research between biologists, biophysicists, structural biologists and computational scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and beyond.
Confocal Microscopy Core Howard Hall 523 Data analysis workstation shared with Electron Miroscopy Core
Confocal Microscopy Core Bressler Research Building 5-008 STED Super Resolution Microscope
Confocal Microscopy Core Health Sciences Facility I 610B Nikon W-1 Spinning Disk, Zeiss LSM 710 NLO, 7MP, LSM DUO
Confocal Microscopy Core Health Sciences Facility III 9-162 Zeiss LS7 Lightsheet Microscope, Nikon A1 Confocal
Cyogenetics Laboratory Bressler Research Building 7-049 CLIA & CAP Clinical Lab: Chromosome Studies: Peripheral blood, bone marrow, Fibroblasts and solid tissues (Karyotype), FISH testing, Microarray analyses (Data analyses)
Cytokine Core Laboratory Bressler Research Building 7-010 Human, mouse, and rat cytokine, chemokine and growth factor assays
Electron Microscopy Core Howard Hall 696 Sample prep and analysis, core office
Electron Microscopy Core Howard Hall

HH030 Scanning Electron Microscope with Volume Scope 3D
Flow Cytometry Core Bressler Research Building 7-022 Amnis FlowSight Imaging Cytometer; Aurora 4; Aurora 5; Aurora CS Sorter; BD Accuri C6; BD Aria II; BD Canto II; BD LSR II; Aurora 3; MACSQuant 10
Flow & Mass Cytometry Core Health Sciences Facility I 456 BD LSR II Flow Cytometer; Beckman MoFlo Astrios Cell Sorter; Fluidigm Helios Mass Cytometers; 
General Clinical Research Center University of Maryland Medical Center S10D04 Resources for clinical research, including facilities for both inpatient and outpatient data collection and patient care, as well as monitoring and equipment to support phase 1 clinical trials. 
Maryland Genomics Health Sciences Facility III Contact for room Next Gen Sequencing and Multi-omics services, Analysis & aomputational services
Mass Spectrometry Core School of Pharmacy Contact for room Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Proteomics, Quantitative Analysis of Metal Ions in Biological Systems/Materials, Metallomics, LC-MS/MS assay development, Drug analysis and PK/PD, and more.
Musculoskeletal Physiology Service Center Howard Hall 4-038 Body Composition Analysis; Confocal Microscope; ECG (Tunnel); ECG (Wires); Gait Analysis (DigitGait); Grip Strength; Inverted Grip; Microcomputed Tomography; Nerve-evoked Muscle Function; RotaRod; Running Wheel; Treadmill; Vevo2100 Ultrasound
Nanofabrication & Characterization Core Health Sciences Facility III 8-164 & 8-165 Integrated solutions in nanoparticle synthesis, physico-chemical characterization, wet-chemistry support, drug release studies, stability studies, nanoparticle tracking analysis, and electrophoretic potential measurements. 
Optum Labs Core Health Sciences Facility III 4-050 A comprehensive, nationwide real-world database that contains de-identified, longitudinal health information on enrollees and patients, representing a mixture of ages and geographical regions across the United States.
Pathology Biorepository Shared Resource (PBSR) Bressler Research Building 7-016 Tissue procurement and processing, Histology services, Digital image analysis, Data services, Consultation services, Tissue biobanking
Histology Core Bressler Research Building 3-007 Complete, ruitine paraffin histology services, including processing and sectioning, Special stains: H&E staining only, Frozen tissue sections. Oversized tissue processing and sectioning
Pediatric Biochemical Genetics Bressler Research Building 7-041 CLIA Clinical Lab. Genetic evaluation, genetic counseling and testing.
Pharmaceutical Research Computing Health Sciences Facility II 633 Responsive and client-focused computer programming, data management, pharmaceutical classifications, and analytic support for health services research and evaluation.
Quality Management System MSTF Room 3-11 GLP and GLP-like QA services
Red Blood Cell (RBC) Physiology & Hemostasis Core Health Sciences Facility III 8-162 Evaluation of RBC biochemistry, morphology, physiology, and biophysics, and their effect on vascular regulation and O2 delivery.
Small Animal Surgery & Physiology (SASP) Core Health Sciences Facility III 8-151 & 8-161 Supports experimental models that focus on (but not be limited to) cardio-pulmonary and vascular physiology and oxygen transport at the whole organism, isolated organ and tissue level. Full array of state-of-the-art anesthetic and surgical instrumentation. 
Translational Genomics Core (TGL) Bressler Research Building 7-037 Clinical Testing. CLIA. Myeloid Malignancy Targeted Panel, Confirmation of a Research Finding, CYP2C19 Genotyping, Cytogenomic Microarray, FLT3 ITD and TKD Fragment Size Analysis, IDH1 R132 and IDH2 R140, R172 Sanger Sequencing
Translational Genomics Core (TGL) Bressler Research Building 7-010 & 7-037 Research Services.Cytogenomic Arrays, Extraction of Nucleic Acid, DNA& RNA, Gene Expression Arrays, Global Expression Profiling, miRNA Expression Profiling, Transcriptome Analysis, Genotyping, Taqman Assays, Sanger DNA Sequencing
Translational Laboratory Shared Resource (TLSR) Bressler Research Building 7-010 In vitro/in vivo assays; clinical trial support; pharmacodynamic (PD) Endpoints
UMMS Biorepository Bressler Research Building 7-010 Sample Extraction, Prep., etc. Clinical sample database for research use.
UMMS Biorepository Health Sciences Facility I 605 Hamilton BIOS Freezer
Viral Vector Core Bressler Research Building 7-018 Custom gene cloning and packaging in AAV or LV

Building Addresses

Bressler Research Building
655 West Baltimore Street

Health Sciences Facility I
685 West Baltimore Street

Health Sciences Facility II
20 Penn Street

Health Sciences Facility III
670 West Baltimore Street

Howard Hall
660 West Redwood Street

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
20 North Pine Street

University of Maryland - Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
9600 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, MD 20850

University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC)
22 South Greene Street