Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center
September 07, 2008

Core Facilities

The Vanderbilt DRTC supports the following shared core resources:

  1. Hormone Assay & Analytical Services Core (Alan Cherrington, Ph.D., Director) provides assays of hormones, metabolites, lipid, and amino acid profiles for DRTC-affiliated investigators at Vanderbilt and for investigators at other institutions.
  2. Metabolic Physiology Shared Resource Core (David Wasserman, Ph.D., and Stephen Davis, M.D., Co-directors) assists investigators wishing to address hypotheses related to diabetes and metabolism in a range of animal model systems (mouse, rat, canine) and humans.
  3. Cell Imaging Shared Resource Core (David Piston, Ph.D., Scientific Director) supports the full range of modern microscopy and digital imaging capabilities and is heavily used by DRTC investigators.
  4. Transgenic / ES Cell Shared Resource Core (Ron Emeson, Ph.D., Director) assists investigators in the generation of genetically modified mice.
  5. Islet Procurement and Analysis Core (Alvin Powers, M.D., Director) provides and characterizes islets from a range of species (mouse to human) to DRTC-affiliated investigators studying pancreatic islet biology.
  6. Prevention, Control, and Translation (Tom Elasy, M.D., Director) promotes innovative diabetes-related translational research.
  7. VDRTC investigators and other Vanderbilt scientists also have access to Research Cores operated by the Vanderbilt Office of Research.

 

 

 

 

 

The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center is supported by NIH grant DK20593.
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