The University of Louisville supports a range of core facilities as part of the overall research enterprise. Core facilities are unique, standalone research laboratories, arrayed into functional areas, that provide researchers across the university (and external parties, as relevant) with access to advanced technologies and research services, sophisticated and expensive research equipment, and skilled, service-oriented scientific and technical personnel.
UofL appreciates the important roles that core facilities play in the university’s ability to conduct cutting-edge research, competitiveness for recruiting and retaining strong faculty, and competitiveness for securing external research funding. Recognizing that core facilities represent increasingly important components of the university research enterprise, UofL has committed to enhancing our strategic focus on more effectively coordinating and managing core facilities.
The core facilities listed below include open access cores that serve researchers across the university as well as facilities that collaborate with more limited subsets of researchers. Please contact the individual core facilities to learn more, and feel free to contact us in the Office of Research & Innovation if you have questions or need additional information.
Faculty Directors: Tom Berfield (Email) & Li Yang (Email)
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Location: Vogt Building (Belknap Campus)
Unit: AMIST, Speed School of Engineering
(AMIST: Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science and Technology)
Faculty Director: Kenneth Palmer (Email)
Director: Bill Severson (Email)
Associate Director: Jon Gabbard (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center) & RBL (Shelby Campus)
Unit: Office of Research & Innovation
{Includes: RBL and other BSL-3 and BSL-2 facilities}
(BSL: Biosafety Level)
(CPM: Center for Predictive Medicine)
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
(RBL: Regional Biocontainment Lab)
Director: Juw Won Park (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Brown Cancer Center
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Director: Eric Rouchka (Email)
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Location: KY INBRE Building/Gray St (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: KY INBRE, Department of Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology, School of Medicine
(KY INBRE: Kentucky IDeA [Institutional Development Award] Network of Biomedical Research Excellence)
Director: Nichola Garbett (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Brown Cancer Center
(BCC: Brown Cancer Center)
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Director: Maiying Kong (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Brown Cancer Center
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Director: Doug Lorenz (Email)
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Location: School of Public Health & Information Sciences (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Department of Bioinformatics & Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Information Sciences
Director: Steve Jones (Email)
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Location: Delia Baxter Research Building II (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: CCS, Environment Institute, School of Medicine
(CCS: Center for Cardiometabolic Science)
Director: Sung Jin Kim (Email)
Manager: Julia Aebersold (Email)
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Location: Shumaker Research Building (Belknap Campus)
Unit: MNTC, Speed School of Engineering
(MNTC: Micro/Nano Technology Center)
Director: Rachel Sheppard (Email)
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Location: MedCenter One, UofL Health Outpatient Center, and other (Health Sciences Center)
Director: Julia Aebersold (Email)
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Location: MDR Building (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: KY INBRE, Department of Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology, School of Medicine
(KY INBRE: Kentucky IDeA [Institutional Development Award] Network of Biomedical Research Excellence)
(MDR: Medical-Dental Research)
Director: Bob Miller (Email)
Manager: Chris Worth (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Director: Melissa Smith (Email)
Assistant Director: Elizabeth Hudson (Email)
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Location: "A" Tower (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
Director: Sabine Waigel (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Units: KY INBRE, Department of Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Brown Cancer Center
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Faculty Director: Haribabu Bodduluri (Email)
Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, School of Dentistry
(FMIP: Functional Microbiomics, Inflammation, & Pathogenicity)
(COBRE: Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence)
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Director: Sung Jin Kim (Email)
Manager: Julia Aebersold (Email)
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Location: Shumaker Research Building (Belknap Campus)
Unit: MNTC, Speed School of Engineering
(MNTC: Micro/Nano Technology Center)
Director: Chin Ng (Email)
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Location: Instructional “B” Building (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Department of Radiology, School of Medicine
(MR: Magnetic Resonance)
Director: Chin Ng (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Department of Radiology, School of Medicine
Director: Haribabu Bodduluri (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Brown Cancer Center
(CII: Center for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy)
(COBRE: Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence)
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Faculty Director: Xiang Zhang (Email)
Manager: Xinmin Yin (Email)
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Location: Shumaker Research Building (Belknap Campus)
Unit: Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
(CREAM: Center for Regulatory and Environmental Analytical Metabolomics)
Director: Lu Cai(Email)
Manager: Jason Xu (Email)
Location: Donald Baxter Research Building I (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Pediatric Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Director: Mahendra Sunkara (Email)
Manager: Jacek Jasinski (Email)
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Location: Lutz Hall (Belknap Campus)
Unit: Conn Center, Speed School of Engineering
(MET: Materials & Energy Technologies)
Director: Joe Burlison (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Units: Brown Cancer Center
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Director: Rob Monsen (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Units: Brown Cancer Center
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Director: Mike Sabo (Email)
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Location: Brown Cancer Center (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Brown Cancer Center
Director: Neal Stolowich (Email)
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Location: Chemistry Building (Belknap Campus)
Unit: Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
Director: Mike Sabo (Email)
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Location: CTRB (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Brown Cancer Center
(CTRB: Clinical & Translational Research Building)
Directors: Mike Merchant (Email)
Location: Donald Baxter Research Building I (Health Sciences Center)
Unit: Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
Additive Manufacturing: AMIST Core Facility
