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Core Research Facilities

Case Western Reserve University's core facilities support innovative research by providing access to state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation, service work, technical expertise and training. These staffed research resources are available to academic and industrial users. Please view the individual facilities' sites for information regarding capabilities and rates. Contact CWRUcores@case.edu for help with general questions related to core facilities.

 

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  • Additive Manufacturing for Biotechnology Core

    The Additive Manufacturing for Biotechnology Core is a resource for additive manufacture and testing of advanced biological material constructs.

  • Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Reliability Center

    The Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Reliability Center develops and provides mechanical testing for materials using an array of equipment.

  • Advanced Research Computing

    The Advanced Research Computing unit of [U]Tech facilitates cost-effective access to IT services and resources, including: high performance computing services; database hosting, design and programming services; server administration services; data storage and backup services; and pre-award IT consultation. 

  • Advanced RNA Profiling Core

    The Advanced RNA Profiling Core performs cutting edge, sequencing-based, transcriptomic profiling techniques, (ribosome profiling, CLIP, 3’end transcript mapping etc.) as a full service or through a la carte services.

  • Applied Functional Genomics Core

    The Applied Functional Genomics Core (AFGC) partners with the CWRU Genomics Core to offer functional genomic study design and a highly standardized, top-to-bottom platform for conducting RNA isolation, library generation, Illumina-based RNA sequencing, and advanced bioinformatics on a wide variety of pre-clinical and clinical sample types. 

  • Athymic Animal and Xenograft Core

    Across two sites (one at Case Western Reserve University and one at Cleveland Clinic at the Taussig Cancer Institute), the Athymic Animal & Preclinical Therapeutics Shared Resource helps principal investigators of CWRU and Cleveland Clinic perform tumor experiments, angiogenesis studies and pharmacokinetic studies in mice. 

  • Bioanalyte Core at CWRU

    The Bioanalyte Core provides biomarker analysis from gene expression, quantification of proteins and evaluation of the function of a wide variety of biomarkers from human, mouse, rat, dog, pig and other samples. Samples can be tissue homogenates, serum, plasma, mucous fluids, tears, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, CNS and many other tissue sources.

  • Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core

    The Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics provide bioinformatics and biostatistical analysis of high throughput data including, proteomics, gene expression, RNA seq, network, and pathway analysis.

  • bio[box]

    Bio[box], a collaborative learning/research space, provides undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers with the space, tools, and instrumentation to facilitate collaborative learning and research.

  • Case Metals Processing Lab

    The Case Metal Processing Laboratory (CMPL) collaborates with federal agencies, industry, professional societies and associations, national laboratories and other universities to promote and advance metal processing technologies by conducting cutting edge research and development.