The Lab

UMass Chan Medical School, located in Worcester, Massachusetts provides an exceptional environment for training. UMass Chan houses the T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. As a thriving and growing research entity, investigators at UMass Chan conduct studies in basic, clinical, community, and population-based research through multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary efforts. Our research project it’s being undertaken at the Departments of Surgery, Department of Medicine, Centers for Outcomes Research and Clinical and Translational Sciences at the UMass Chan Medical School. The university harbors a rich collection of investigators in all areas immunology, liver metabolism, and transplant medicine. All the key facilities and resources available to our lab members.

The School has several core facilities that our lab routinely uses:

• Molecular Biology Core Lab (http://www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=52038),
• Core Electron microscopy facility (http://www.umassmed.edu/cemf/),
• Pathology core lab (http://www.umassmed.edu//digitalimages/index.aspx),
• Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry lab (http://www.umassmed.edu/proteomics/),
• Flow cytometry Core Lab (http://www.umassmed.edu//facslab/index.aspx),
• RNA Core lab (http://www.umassmed.edu/shrna/),
• Engineering/medical devices workshop (http://www.umassmed.edu//machineshop/index.aspx), and Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center.
  
  In addition, our lab count with two Masterflex perfusion pumps, one Medtronic centrifugal pump (Biopump BP-50), flowmeters, heat exchanger. The laboratory has 8 PC microcomputers and 2 PC Workstations for both office and laboratory. Six of them are connected to special instruments for data recording and processing. There is a common equipment room which houses dark rooms, cold rooms, surgical microscope to perform animal microsurgery, -80C freezers, ultracentrifuges, scintillation counters and gamma counters, dishwashing and autoclaving facilities and an automated X-ray film developer, as well as high and medium speed refrigerated ultracentrifuges. In addition, the Department of Surgery provides the necessary staff support for personnel management, purchasing, grant administration, and accounting.