In addition to our department’s state-of-the-art facilities and specialized equipment, research at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC is supported by a comprehensive network of shared core facilities. These resources provide investigators, trainees, and their faculty mentors with access to advanced technologies, expert staff, and specialized services, available on a fee‑for‑service or collaborative basis.
Pitt’s Shared Research Facilities offers centralized information about the wide range of core technologies, equipment, and research services across the University’s departments, schools, and campuses. These facilities support basic, translational, and clinical research through cutting‑edge instrumentation and technical expertise.
Pitt’s Health Sciences Core Research Facilities serve researchers across Pitt’s Schools of the Health Sciences, providing specialized resources, facilities, and equipment that enable innovative biomedical and clinical research.
Supported by the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh offers access to advanced research laboratories equipped with state‑of‑the‑art tools and technologies to support discovery in pediatric health and disease.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Shared Resources provide researchers with access to critical, cutting-edge, and cost-effective technology and services.
The Safar Center has animal laboratories, animal ICU facilities, and surgery rooms with appropriate equipment and set ups for studies on brain trauma, hemorrhagic shock, cardiac arrest, emergency preservation and resuscitation, and combat casualty care and rehabilitation of central nervous system injury.
The Department of Structural Biology’s NMR facility houses a complement of high field spectrometers that occupy ~10,000 square feet in University’s Biomedical Science Tower 3.
Comprising scientists from the Pitt Departments of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Medicine, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry, Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research shared resources include cold rooms, cell culture facilities, sterilization equipment, and ultracentrifuges.