Core Facilities
The University of Arizona is home to a host of research resources called core facilities or cores—highly specialized testbed facilities available for use by faculty, students, and scientists in government and industry. The core facilities provides users with access not only to the latest instrumentation, but also to experienced staff with expertise in designing and conducting experiments and analyzing data.
Our core facilities are:
- Unique: Capabilities are not available elsewhere on campus and, in many cases, within the region
- Enabling: Open to a broad range of research, fostering a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration
- Accessible: In centralized locations to make them equally accessible to all users
- Sustainable: Generally recover their cost, or a portion of their cost, by charging user fees
Not sure where to start? Email your question to:
researchservices@email.arizona.edu
Bioinformatics Shared Resource
The Bioinformatics Shared Resource provides support in the following areas: analysis of genomic, genetic, proteomics, and other types of molecular data sets of cancer cells and tissues; analysis of...
High Performance/High Throughput (HPC/HTC) Computing
The High Performance/High Throughput (HPC/HTC) Computing systems provides research resources for testing and running large codes, parallel-processing codes, visualization and scientific applications.
High Performance/High Throughput (HPC/HTC) Storage
The University’s Research Data Center provides for storage of computational data.
Tissue Acquisition and Cellular/Molecular Analysis Shared Service (TACMASS)
The Tissue Acquisition and Cellular/Molecular Analysis Shared Service provides expertise in histological and immunopathological techniques and expert pathological analysis of both human and research...
Analytical Chemistry Shared Resource (ACSR)
The Analytical Chemistry Shared Resource (ACSR) provides Cancer Center investigators with centralized resources and expertise in performing analytical chemistry assays and pharmacokinetic and...
Chemistry Instrumentation and Electronics Facility (ChIEF)
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Electronics Shop (ChIEF) troubleshoots, repairs, designs and builds a wide variety of electronic equipment and scientific instrumentation.
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Facility
The Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Facility performs various kinds of EPR experiments, provides an interpretation of the spectroscopic results in terms of chemical, geometrical and electronic...
Laboratory for Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Analysis
The Laboratory for Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Analysis (LESSA) provides surface chemical composition and valence band structure of ultrahigh vacuum compatible samples.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility provides high-resolution analysis of organic compounds, peptides, oligonucleotides, small biopolymers, and small proteins to elucidate the structure and...
X-ray Diffraction Facility
The X-ray diffraction facility provides analysis of single-crystal and powder samples to determine the molecular structure in the solid-state.