The Biostatistics Collaboration Center at Vanderbilt (BCC) is a university sponsored core resource whose goal is to provide for, enhance, and/or facilitate statistical collaborations involving the design, conduct, analysis or publication of biomedical research at the university.
The Cooperative Human Tissue Network - Western Divisionat Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of six institutions apart of thenetwork funded by the National Cancer Institute to procure and distribute remnant human tissues and fluids to biomedical researchers throughout the United States, Canada and now internationally.
The Vanderbilt Clinical Research Center is an inpatient and outpatient research facility staffed with personnel dedicated to conducting clinical research patient care. These resources are available to Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College clinical investigators and their study team...
The purpose of the Clinical Informatics Core is to enable VUMC researchers to more easily and efficiently design and implement EHR-related tools, functionalities, and interventions with input and assistance from clinical informatics experts, as well as to gain access to and analyze EHR-based data not currently available through other resources. The services this Core will provide are:
1) Data warehouse management and provision through the VDAWGs (Vanderbilt Database Access Working Group) service.
2) Design and build of electronic health record interventions, including decision support tools.
3) Clinical data extraction and analysis.
4) Predictive model implementation.
5) Value set and logic development.
6) General clinical informatics consultation.
The Clinical Trials Shared Resource provides training resources and services to assist cancer center investigators in developing, activating and completing scientifically meritorious clinical trials in an efficient, cost-effective and technically sound manner.
DHSR provides largescale digital archiving and quantitative analysis of histologic, immunohistochemical and immunofluorescence staining of tissue sections and tissue microarrays.
Provides a valuable resource for all investigators (both within Vanderbilt as well as those at other institutions and organizations globally) who do not have ready access to personnel with the training and expertise instate-of-the-sciencemethodologyfor obtaining valid and reliable assessment, intervention, and analyses ofdietary intakes,nutritional status, body composition, physical activity, and energy balance.
Vanderbilt University affirms the important role animal research plays in advancing society’s understanding of human and animal health. We are committed to seeing that animals used in biomedical research and education are treated with respect and receive the best possible care. Vanderbilt maintains a program of animal care and use that meets federal and local laws and guidelines and is voluntarily accredited by the Association for the Assessment of Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International (AAALAC).
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is a federally mandated university committee that ensures that the care and use of animals is appropriate and humane, in accordance with animal welfare regulations. The IACUC establishes policy and procedure on animal care and use for the institution.
Provides flow cytometry services to faculty, staff, and students in the VUMC and to other investigators on a fee for service basis.
The FGI Core will provide pooled CRISPR screening and primary human hematopoietic cells.
Offers consultative services, equipment, and facilitation to support investigators planning to conduct qualitative studies, with a particular focus on use of structured and semi-structured interviews, web-based collection of qualitative data, direct observation of behavior, and focus groups.
The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) supports the work of the IRB and provides HRPP Oversight. Invoicing for IRB review fees. All changes and payments are typically transferred from a center to the IRB main center numbers.
Provides scientific and technical assistance to clinical and laboratory researchers interested in experimentation using human tumor tissues or cell lines.
Provides in vivo and ex vivo imaging capabilities of small animals and tissue samples via magnetic resonance imaging, xrayXray CT, Positron emission PET and single photon emission and bioluminesencefluorescence imaging.
Provides structural and functional MR imaging and spectroscopy at 3 and 7 Tesla and supports MRI and MRS protocol development, fMRI experimental design, subject preparation, structural and functional image analysis, and training on image analysis techniques and tools.
Provides help to Vanderbilt Investigators to develop and translate novel radiopharmaceuticals to patients, to noninvasively visualize and quantify molecular events in preclinical in vivo models and patients, and to conduct clinical trials that feature molecular imaging endpoints.
TheIDASCcore supports research involving secondary use of clinical data and is a mechanism for receiving programming related to theSynthetic Derivative/BioVU, and theResearch Derivativeavailable to the Vanderbilt ...
The Investigational Drug Service (IDS) is a team of specially trained pharmacists and certified pharmacy technicians within the VUMC Department of Pharmaceutical Services. The IDS team is dedicated to helping investigators accomplish research goals while maintaining compliance with all applicable standards and regulations. Study protocol dispensing can be accommodated for inpatient and outpatient studies on the main campus and at clinic sites such as One Hundred Oaks.
The Molecular Cell Biology Resource (MCBR) Core provides Vanderbilt researchers with convenient access to reagents, kits, DNA/RNA oligo and siRNA products and high-end imaging and real-time PCR instruments needed to carry out research as efficiently and inexpensively as possible.
Core services providinginnovative radiation scan through the irradiator machine.
Provides investigators with common informatics services and a flexible physical and electronic infrastructure for acquiring, storing, communicating and analyzing research data.
Consolidates the genomics data pipeline across the university and allow investigators to leverage the opportunities provided by next generation sequencing and other genomics technologies.
Provides a one stop genomics research resource, including Illumina genotyping, DNA extraction and banking, Affymetrixbased genotyping and expression microarrays, Sanger sequencing and Next Generation Sequencing NGS among many other specialized services.
The Vanderbilt Coordinating Center (VCC) provides comprehensive, central support for a diverse platform of clinical and translational research projects.
TheZebrafishAquaticFacilityis composed of approximately 100 research tanks available for short and long-term studies, and a significant expansion project is underway. The facility enables investigator access to the unique advantages of the zebrafish model, which provides hundreds of mutant and transgenic zebrafish with unique properties suited for specific experiments. This core’s essential mission is to provide a reliable mechanism for incorporation and propagation of new and existing zebrafish lines into the core.
