Core Facilities
The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine is home to a suite of advanced core facilities that provide essential technologies, services, and expertise to support cutting-edge biomedical research.
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These cores serve as vital resources for investigators working across disciplines, offering capabilities in gene delivery, genomic analysis, stem cell research, and preclinical imaging.
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By centralizing access to high-quality tools and specialized knowledge, our core facilities accelerate discovery and innovation in areas ranging from neuroscience and cancer biology to stem cell therapeutics and systems biology.
Gene Transfer, Targeting and Therapeutics Viral Vector Core
The Gene Transfer, Targeting and Therapeutics Viral Vector Core facilitates the use of these powerful research tools by Salk researchers and others across diverse fields of study such as systems neuroscience, stem cell biology, metabolism, ageing, cancer biology and gene therapy.
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core
The UC San Diego Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Facility (hESCCF) is an integral component of UC San Diego's commitment to Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) research. Under the direction of Karl Willert, PhD, this lab is dedicated to providing laboratory space to conduct research with the cell lines and maintaining and characterizing established human embryonic to the pluripotent stem cell lines. HESCCF provides tissue culture space and access to high end cell characterization equipment including cell sorters, MEA, and microscopy.
Preclinical Animal Imaging
In partnership with Perceptive Discovery, LLC, the Molecular Imaging Center at Sanford (MICS) works to advance state-of-the-art in vivo preclinical imaging and spectroscopy techniques to better understand tissue and organ function, and to make these tools available to the greater biomedical research community.