The UMass Chan Research Core Facilities offer a wide range of services to the research community including cutting edge technologies, high-end instrumentation and technical support for basic, translational and clinical research. We are committed to enhancing and expanding the capabilities of your research projects. Our Core Directors are leaders in their fields and offer consultation on your projects and are collaborative partners.

Animal research core facilities are a critical resource in today’s research environment. It is essential to offer a centralized resource allowing the research community access to instrumentation, technologies, and a wide range of services that are otherwise unattainable.

Our core facility provides University of Massachusetts, outside academic institutions and pharmaceutical researchers with a central resource for creating and studying cardiovascular physiology, pathophysiology surgical and non-surgical models on a fee-for-service basis. With our central focus of the core being cardiovascular research, our core offers a wide range of techniques for researchers in a variety of other fields.

There are many ways we contribute to your research:

Our staff has a broad knowledge base in cardiovascular physiology and animal surgery.
We work extensively with researchers in writing internal IACUC and IRB protocols.
Data is produced efficiently and consistently.
We provide customized model development for the individual needs of researchers at a fraction of the cost of initial equipment investment and maintenance.
Custom acquisition and analysis services.
In-depth solutions for comprehensive assessment