Clinical & Translational Research (CTR) Resources

Shared Resources and Facilities

Bioinformatics Resource – CMGM

Workshops, consultation and hardware and software access for Mac, PC, and Unix for use in biomedical research. More »

Biofilm Laboratory

Campus-wide research facility for studies on microbial biofilms; houses an upright Leica confocal microscope. Ability to work with many different systems. The upright scanhead and water immersion objectives allow imaging of films without removal from growing media; this allows you to set-up experiments here in our facility and image real time in-situ. More »

Cell Sciences Imaging Facility (CSIF)

Access to fluorescent and electron microscope systems. Current technologies include confocal laser scanning (single and two photon lasers) wide field deconvolution and a full service EM facility for TEM and SEM imaging. More »

Child Health Research Program (CHRP)

CHRP provides formal infrastructure, mentoring, and funding in preparing early and mid-career faculty for a career in clinical and transpational research. CHRP services are available to Stanford faculty and trainees participating in clinical and translational research in children. More »

Clark Center Hotel Space

Within the Clark Center are 65 bright yellow three-foot benches that are available to researchers for temporary occupancy. The benches provide an opportunity for researchers to work in close proximity during the early stages of projects. All Stanford faculty affiliated with Bio-X are eligible to apply to use hotel space. Hotel space exists throughout the building, often in clusters of benches. More »

Cognitive Neuroscience

State-of-the-art scientific tools for researchers studying human cognitive neuroscience: EEG Laboratory, Brain Imaging Analysis Center, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, 3D Medical Imaging Laboratory, MR Simulator, Stanford Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory. More »

Electron Microscopy

The CSIF-EMC is a full service lab providing sample preparation, immuno-gold localization, EM imaging and documentation, and assistance with experimental design and data interpretation. Training on all the EMC’s equipment and electron microscopes is available. More »

Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting – FACS Facility

FACS (Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting) and flow cytometry are used interchangeably. FACS is a powerful method used to study and purify cells. FACS has a wide application in immunology and cell biology and other fields of biology. Site includes Facility Instrument capabilities. More »

Lane Library – LaneConnex Knowledge Management Center

Lane Services – books & collections; classroom & study spaces; public computing; research & publishing; teaching support; video services; workshops & training. Get connected – get a SUNet ID; register with Lane for borrowing materials; register your wireless laptop for use on campus. Discover resources – search Laneconnex; browse eJournals and Databases; search our Clinical Search or Bioresearch Search; view Lane Catalog for all of Lane's print and online collections. More »

Magnetic Resonance Facility

Research instrumentation and expertise in the area of solution-phase, high resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Instrumentation includes Varian Inova 800 and 600 MHz spectrometers, Bruker Avance 500 MHz spectrometer, and access to the Central California Bruker 900 MHz spectrometer at UC-Berkeley. Three of the spectrometers are equipped with cryogenic probes (800 Cold Probe, 500/900 CryoProbes). Primary focus of the facility: study of biological macromolecules. Collaborating researchers also use the facility to study properties of polymers, minerals, soils, and for NMR imaging experiments. More »

Mass Spectrometry

Currently in operation: five LC-MS systems -- one single quad, two ion traps, one triple quad, and one hybrid quadrupole-time of flight -- and a GC-MS. Software resources: instrument-specific packages Xcalibur, MassLynx, ChemStation; proteomics software Mascot, Bioworks, Sequest, ProteinLynx, Scaffold; and other tools Mass Frontier, QuanLynx, OpenLynx, ChemDraw. Routine mass spec and proteomic services: molecular weight determination, MSn, LC-MS, high resolution MS, protein identification by proteolytic digest, nano LC-MS/MS and database search, standard and long column capillary chromatography and MudPIT, and more. Custom work. More »

Microarray Facility – Stanford Functional Genomics Facility (SFGF)

Provides microarrays and microarray services to researchers within the Stanford community and beyond. 24/7 access to instruments, equipment and software. We support all arrays based on a microscope format including Agilent, Illumina, Nimblegen, and arrays produced by SFGF. Besides printing cDNA and oligonucleotide microarrays, the facility can also print arrays of your material in a high throughput fashion, including proteins, peptides, antibodies, cell lysates, siRNAs, etc. More »

Parallel Computer Cluster

Consultation concerning research that focuses on two complementary aspects of protein and nucleic acid structure: simulation of molecular dynamics and prediction of stable native structures. Calculations attempt to simulate atomic motion in as accurate a manner as possible, explicitly including solvent, counter-ions, full flexibility, and thermal motion. Prediction of molecular structure attempts to build a three-dimensional model of the macromolecule using available information. This work ranges from the very difficult problem of protein folding from its amino acid sequence to easier problems of side-chain positioning and homology modeling. More »

Product Realization Lab (PRL)

Prototyping and fabrication facilities in support of student design activities. The shops offer traditional machining, woodworking, foundry, plastics molding, welding, finishing, and metrology tools. State-of-the-art computer-aided drawing, manufacturing, and prototyping systems are also available. All PRL resources, including instruction and coaching by staff, are available to Stanford students as are a number of quarter-long courses which make use of the shop. More »

Stanford Center For Innovation In In-Vivo Imaging

Application and advancement of technologies for in-vivo biological assessment and imaging in animal models. The instrumentation will support the development of reagents and approaches that will reveal in-vivo changes at the molecular and cellular level such that a greater understanding can be gained in animal models. More »

Supercomputer – Biocomputation Core Facility

Supercomputer enables research efforts ranging from subcellular and cellular level computing such as genomics, developmental and structural biology, to organ system level computing including cardiovascular and musculoskeletal biomechanical modeling; a subcommittee of the Center for Biomedical Computation at Stanford is overseeing the usage of this supercomputer and the allocation of resources. The criteria for using: (1) a Stanford academic status of faculty, staff or student, (2) resources can only be used for biocomputation research or teaching. More »

Synchrotron Beamline – SSRL

SSRL, a division of SLAC, provides synchrotron radiation, a name given to x-rays or light produced by electrons circulating in a storage ring at nearly the speed of light. These extremely bright x-rays can be used to investigate various forms of matter ranging from objects of atomic and molecular size to man-made materials with unusual properties. More »

Tissue Bank

Procurement, storage, distribution, and study of tissues. Current activities and services: collecting and banking freshly-frozen tissue specimens from excess surgical material and from autopsy, providing fresh tissue specimens for viable cell studies, processing and banking blood components, maintaining a tissue database with links to clinicopathological data, performing histological staining and pathological review, and coordinating patient consent and assuring regulatory compliance. More »

Transgenic Animal Facility

Partly supported by funds from Stanford Cancer Center, the Stanford Transgenic Mouse Research Facility is set to produce your transgenic and knockout mouse models. The facility provides low-cost DNA microinjection services, ES cell manipulation, microinjection, and new ES cell derivation services to all Stanford as well as external investigators. The facility also provides services on timed pregnant females, strain rederivation, sperm cryopreservation and ICSI procedures for resurrecting frozen sperms. More »

Visual Art Services

Services for photography; medical photography; graphic publication and illustration; electronic imaging and scanning; graphic design and illustration; business cards. More »