Facilities, Resources, and Environment repository
Utilize this page to access boilerplate language or contact information to assist with building your Facilities and Other Resources section (NIH), Facilities, Resources and Other Equipment section (NSF), or similar section for other sponsored research proposals.
The boilerplate language included in this repository is a generic description provided by the owning entity. Do not assume you can copy and paste this language into your application, and refer to your funding application instructions for specific requirements and formatting (for example, for NIH proposals, hyperlinks are not allowed in the Facilities and Resources document unless specifically requested in the funding opportunity announcement). General best practice is to include a description along with a sentence or two about how each facility or resource is being used in the project.
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Collaboratives, Consortiums, and Networks
*If eligibility is blank, all Duke researchers are potentially eligible to utilize the facility or resource
| Facility or Resource | Information | Eligibility | Boilerplate Language/Contact Info | Fee |
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| Antibiotic Resistance Leadership Group | The ARLG accepts research proposals for Infectious Disease research studies and funds the research, if approved by the Executive and Steering Committees. We have a large amount of potential research sites. We also have a Virtual Biorepository for providing bacterial strains to assist in research. www.arlg.org | Contact ARLG_Network@dm.duke.edu | ||
| CTSI Center for Precision Health | The Duke Center for Precision Health (CPH) fuels clinical, translational, and basic science to serve as a foundational network for coalescing communities of Duke scientists. | Access boilerplate language | ||
| CTSI Primary Care Research Consortium (PCRC) | A practice-based research network for academic and community primary care practices within the Duke Health system and surrounding communities. | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center | The Duke Asthma, Allergy, and Airway Center serves as a hub of patient-centered asthma and airway research efforts, aimed at better understanding airway and allergic diseases and evaluating new therapies to ultimately improve patients' lives. | Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Research Investigators with funding for services | Contact jessica.shier@duke.ed | |
| North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium (NAPAAC) | The North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium (NAPAAC) is a collaborative research effort that seeks to develop better therapies for children with aplastic anemia, inherited bone marrow failure and myelodysplastic syndrome by combining the expertise and resources of the leading pediatric hematologists in North America. | Contact jennifer.rothman@duke.edu | ||
| OneDukebio Integrated biospecimen Network's (ODIN) | Provides long-term sample storage with 24/7 monitoring using temperature alarm systems, emergency power, and two-fold redundant environmental control systems and operates in compliance with internationally-recognized Good Clinical Laboratory Practices and 21 CFR Part 11. | Contact ODIN@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Pediatric Immune Thrombocytopenia Consortium of North America (ICON) | ICON is a collaborative research effort that is dedicated to improving the understanding, treatment, and quality of life of pediatric patients with ITP. | Contact jennifer.rothman@duke.edu | ||
| Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN) | Clinical Data Research Networks make it easier to conduct multi-site studies by enabling access to well-curated EHR data at all member institutions. The ACT Network at Duke (i2b2), supported by Duke CTSI, is a real-time platform allowing researchers to explore and validate feasibility for clinical studies from the comfort of their desktops. | Duke and NCCU researchers and scholars |
Institutional Entities (Schools, Institutes, Centers, Departments)
*If eligibility is blank, all Duke researchers are potentially eligible to utilize the facility or resource
| Facility or Resource | Information | Eligibility | Boilerplate Language/Contact Info | Fee |
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| Duke AI Health | Duke AI Health connects, strengthens, amplifies, and grows multiple streams of theoretical and applied research on artificial intelligence and machine learning at the University in order to answer the most urgent and difficult challenges in medicine and population health. | Access boilerplate language | ||
| BioRepository & Precision Pathology Center (BRPC): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Duke BRPC is a tissue, blood and fluid biorepository, tissue procurement service and research support core laboratory within the Department of Pathology | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (BIAC) | A research center specializing in MR imaging and analysis services using advanced MRI technologies and expert support to facilitate research across campus, medical center and industry | Researchers must obtain approval from the BIAC Scientific Review Committee to utilize services | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Development (CAMRD) | The center houses a whole body 3T MRI with full research capabilities to perform MR imaging and spectroscopy studies on humans and large animals | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| CTSA Recruitment Innovation Center | The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) provides Duke's clinical research community with connections, collaborations, and resources to support efficient, effective, and equitable participant engagement, recruitment, and retention, including strategic planning, data-driven tactics, and patient engagement resources | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center | The Duke Asthma, Allergy, and Airway Center serves as a hub of patient-centered asthma and airway research efforts, aimed at better understanding airway and allergic diseases and evaluating new therapies to ultimately improve patients' lives | Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Research Investigators with funding for services | Contact jessica.shier@duke.edu | |
| Duke Innovation Co-Lab | The Innovation Co-Lab (including Bluesmith 3D Printing Service) is a Duke Community resource for learning about, experimenting, and building with technology. We provide free workspace, equipment, and training to anyone in the Duke community | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Duke Cancer Institute was created as a novel and single entity to facilitate optimal integration of all cancer-related activities at Duke Health | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) | We consult on grant submissions and study feasibility reviews, mentor junior faculty and others and assist with study and regulatory related issues as well as bringing additional expertise on international research as our directors have decades of experience implementing research projects globally | Duke researchers and staff working on HIV-related non-industry sponsored grants and studies | Contact cfar-clinical-core@duke.edu | |
| Duke Center for Data and Visualization Sciences (CDVS) | The Center for Data and Visualization Sciences is located within Duke University Libraries and serves Duke University and Duke University Health System. Our team of consultants and interns offers support in data science, data sources, data management and curation, data visualization, and mapping and GIS (geographic information systems) | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) | Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the administrative home for the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), is responsible for overseeing and integrating CTSA core services into the fabric of translational science and research at Duke | Duke research faculty, staff, scholars and teams | Access boilerplate language | |
| Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) | DCRI has full service clinical research capabilities, coordinates multi-site studies, phase II-IV, patient/community based research, and many other trial specific services/opportunities | Duke Research/DCRI Faculty | Access boilerplate language | |
| Duke Health | High level overview of Duke Health | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Marine Lab | The Nicholas School of the Environment's year-round coastal campus in Beaufort, N.C. is home to research, teaching and student life facilities | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI) | DMPI Provides four state-of-the-cores open to Duke researchers that cover metabolomics, molecular genomics, biomarkers and hum physiology testing | Contact dmpi@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Duke River Center | The River Center analytical lab is set up as a shared resource service center for routine analysis of environmental water samples. | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke University | High level overview of Duke University | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke University School of Medicine | High level overview of Duke University School of Medicine | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Interdisciplinary Behavioral Research Center (IBRC) | The IBRC provides infrastructure for behavioral and social science research at Duke, including a large behavioral research lab with various testing rooms at Erwin Mill, portable research equipment for off-site use, and a community participant pool | For all researchers engaging in social and behavioral research | Access boilerplate language | |
| Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) | Brings together researchers with interests in problems that cross the various social and behavioral sciences, including problems that connect with the humanities and natural sciences. | Access boilerplate language |
Research Support Offices & Services
*If eligibility is blank, all Duke researchers are potentially eligible to utilize the facility or resource
| Facility or Resource | Information | Eligibility | Boilerplate Language/Contact Info | Fee |
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| Animal Care and Use Programs | Duke Animal Care and Use Program entities include: Division of Laboratory Animal Resources (DLAR), Duke Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), and The Office of Animal Welfare Assurance (OAWA) | Contact IACUC@duke.edu | ||
| Campus IRB | Consultation and training in development of human subject research protocols | Contact campusirb@duke.edu | ||
| CTSI Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Methods Core | The BERD Core (1) helps investigators navigate the analytic resource landscape at Duke (and partner institutions) to identify appropriate methodologists for collaboration and (2) provides biostatistics collaboration through long-term collaborative teams | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| CTSA Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) | The Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) is grounded in a health equity perspective and seeks to improve relevance and uptake of scientific discoveries through stakeholder engagement | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | |
| CTSA Community Partnered Research Network (CPRN) | The CPRN is a collaborative infrastructure designed to advance community-partnered and community-driven research that prioritizes community involvement in and leadership in clinical research to improve health for all in the community. | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | |
| CTSA Participants and Clinical Interactions Core (PCI) | Core promotes high-quality and efficient human participatory research by creating tools and resources for conducting studies and monitoring process quality across the research enterprise | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | |
| CTSA Pilot Funding Program (CTSI Accelerator) | Supports the development of novel methods and proof-of-concept evaluation of therapeutic agents, biomedical devices, diagnostic tests, technologies, and community- and health-system based interventions | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | |
| CTSA Recruitment Innovation Center | The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) provides Duke's clinical research community with connections, collaborations, and resources to support efficient, effective, and equitable participant engagement, recruitment, and retention, including strategic planning, data-driven tactics, and patient engagement resources | Access boilerplate language | ||
| CTSA Team Science Core | Team Science Core offers a broad array of consulting, training, and facilitation services to interested boundary-(e.g., disciplinary, sectoral, institutional, academic/community) spanning teams throughout the University and Health system | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| CTSI Clinical Research Unit | The CTSI Clinical Research Unit is the operating business unit responsible for the integrity, financial accountability, regulatory compliance, quality, and academic productivity of clinical research studies | Access boilerplate language | ||
| CTSI Duke Kannapolis Research Site and MURDOCK Study Biorepository | Duke Kannapolis is a clinical research site that enables precision health research by partnering with the Duke research community, external collaborators and a diverse community of engaged research participants. The site is located in Kannapolis, NC, a Northeast suburb of Charlotte, with a team of experienced research professionals and broad research capabilities | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| CTSI Duke-NCCU Bridge Office | The Duke-NCCU Bridge Office works closely with Duke and NCCU leadership to create opportunities for multidisciplinary collaborations and ensure that faculty, investigators, and trainees at all career levels have access to core resources and services to do innovative research | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | |
| CTSI Evaluation Improvement and Impact | Evaluation, Improvement, and Impact (EII) applies principles of continuous quality improvement and evidence-based decision-making throughout and across CTSI functions. | Access boilerplate language | ||
| CTSI Social Informatics Program | The Social Informatics Program is an interdisciplinary initiative that integrates social epidemiology, informatics, and biostatistics to explore how social and environmental factors influence health outcomes. | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | |
| DUHS IRB | The DUHS Institutional Review Board (IRB) is the IRB-of-Record for all DUHS employees and students who conduct research with human subjects, regardless of the location of that research | Contact sharon.ellison@duke.edu | Yes | |
Duke Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
| We consult on grant submissions and study feasibility reviews, mentor junior faculty and others and assist with study and regulatory related issues as well as bringing additional expertise on international research as our directors have decades of experience implementing research projects globally | Duke researchers and staff working on HIV-related non-industry sponsored grants and studies | Contact cfar-clinical-core@duke.edu | |
| Duke Center for Data and Visualization Sciences (CDVS) | The Center for Data and Visualization Sciences is located within Duke University Libraries and serves Duke University and Duke University Health System. Our team of consultants and interns offers support in data science, data sources, data management and curation, data visualization, and mapping and GIS (geographic information systems) | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Initiative for Science & Society | S&S provides expertise on the ethical, legal, and policy issues of advances in science and technology | Contact scienceandsociety@duke.edu | ||
| Duke Learning & Organization Development | Duke Learning & Organization Development provides computer labs, classrooms, and meeting space resources | Duke administrative staff for employee training or academic departments conducting in-service exams | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Duke Medical Center Library & Archives | The Medical Center Library and Archives provides biomedical resources and information services | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR) | DOCR provides navigation, tools, and training to support the conduct of clinical research in which Duke serves as an investigative site | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Office of Scientific Integrity (DOSI) | Developing and promoting a culture in which the highest standards of scientific rigor, reproducibility and responsible conduct are advanced | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Research @ Pickett | Duke Research @ Pickett is a Research Core offering research staffing (clinical research coordination and nursing), phlebotomy and lab service options, and a location for research visits | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Research and Discovery @ RTP | Duke Research and Discovery @ RTP houses an outpatient clinical research facility which serves as the base of operations for the Duke Human Vaccine Institute's Vaccine and Trials Unit. The secured-access facility with adjacent parking includes: waiting area; 6 fully equipped exam rooms (1 ADA); phlebotomy room; vital signs station; ECG machine; sample-processing laboratory; and temperature monitored storage for investigational product. Outside investigative teams may have access to use the facility based upon the specific need and availability | Members of Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) and upon request; other Duke School of Medicine researchers as capacity allows and with approval | Contact lynn.harrington@duke.edu | |
| Duke Research Computing and Protected Network for Research (PNR) | Specialized compute and storage resources for computationally or data intensive analysis | Duke PIs and their designees working with non-sensitive data. Some non-Duke collaborators, including students (must be approved on project documentation (IRB, DUA, contracts, affiliations, etc)) | Access boilerplate language | |
| Duke Surplus | Surplus Property Office is available to Duke-affiliates to access used surplus equipment and furniture at no cost to their department | Contact surplus@duke.edu | ||
| Duke Investigational Drug Services (IDS) | Establish study-specific pharmaceutical procedures for safe and appropriate investigational drug accountability, storage, preparation, dispensing, destruction and billing | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) Center for Nursing Research (CNR): Biomarkers Lab | The DUSON Biomarkers Lab offers processing, storage, and analysis of bio-samples for DUSON researchers | DUSON researchers; collaborators, as needed. Non-DUSON researchers can request a quote for services based on the project needs | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Duke School of Nursing (DUSON) Center for Nursing Research (CNR): Regulatory Oversight and Compliance Core | The Research Oversight and Compliance Core (ROCC) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of research integrity by promoting ethical practices and ensuring that all research activities comply with regulatory requirements and institutional policies. | DUSON affiliates | Access boilerplate language | |
| DukeSpace | DukeSpace is Duke University's online repository for publications and other archival materials in digital format | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Maestro Care Research Analyst Team | The Maestro Care Research analyst team supports the use of Maestro Care to enhance research recruitment as well as research conduct within the EHR | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| myRESEARCHsuite | myRESEARCHsuite leverages three services to help connect researchers to the information, systems, and resources they need to successfully conduct and manage their research at Duke | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Office of Academic Solutions and Information Systems (OASIS): SoM Research Enclave (SRE) | OASIS, and The School of Medicine Research Enclave (SRE) collaborates with Duke researchers to identify, design, and implement innovative computing solutions that accelerate biomedical discovery. SRE is made up of the Protected Research Compute Cluster (PRCC, formerly PACE), and the Research Compute Cluster (RCC, formerly HPC) | School of Medicine affiliates | Access boilerplate language | |
| Office of Assessment | The Office of Assessment, within the Office of the University Registrar, may be written in to competitive grant applications (e.g., NIH T34 and R25) | Faculty and student researchers studying learning and student development. | Contact jlh9@duke.edu | Yes |
| Office of Evaluation and Applied Research Partnership | The Office utilizes evaluation and associated responsive and community-engaged research to improve initiatives' practice, to augment impact, and to advance evaluation and responsive practice and itself | Contact jessica.sperling@duke.edu | ||
| Office of Physician Scientist Development (OPSD) | OPSD empowers physician-scientists to launch successful research careers by providing access to funding opportunities, career mentorship, integrated research training, and education and professional development for students, trainees and junior faculty at Duke | Physician-Scientists, Trainees & Students | Access boilerplate language | |
| Office of Postdoctoral Services (OPS) | The Office of Postdoctoral Services is the central resource for Duke's approximately 700 postdoctoral appointees, both on Campus and in the School of Medicine. OPS provides workshops, seminars, and individual career counseling to support postdoctoral training at Duke and prepare postdocs for successful careers in academia and beyond | Duke postdoctoral appointees | Access boilerplate language | |
| Office of Regulatory Affairs & Quality (ORAQ) | ORAQ provides FDA regulatory affairs and GMP quality support for FDA regulated research activities | Contact ORAQ@duke.edu | ||
| Research Animal Pathology Core | Provide professional pathology services for animal model support | Contact rebecca.bacon@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Research Electronic Data Captured (REDCap) | REDCap is a secure web platform for building and managing online databases and surveys | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Small Trials Program | PK/PD analysis support or trials operation support | Contact anthony.cunningham@duke.edu | Yes |
Researcher Training and Development
*If eligibility is blank, all Duke researchers are potentially eligible to utilize the facility or resource
| Facility or Resource | Information | Eligibility | Boilerplate Language/Contact Info | Fee |
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| CTSA Team Science Core | Team Science Core offers a broad array of consulting, training, and facilitation services to interested boundary-(e.g., disciplinary, sectoral, institutional, academic/community) spanning teams throughout the University and Health system | All Duke researchers as well as NCCU researchers and scholars | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| CTSI Duke Scholars in Molecular Medicine (DSMM) | Duke Scholars in Molecular Medicine (DSMM) is a career development program for PhD candidates and postdoctoral associates who are studying basic sciences. | PhD candidates and postdoctoral associates who are studying basic sciences | Access boilerplate language | |
| CTSI: Office of Physician-Scientist Development (OPSD) | The Office of Physician-Scientist Development (OPSD) serves as a central resource for Duke physician-scientists, students, and trainees to leverage research and career support programs across the institution. | Access boilerplate language | ||
| CTSI Workforce Development Team | The CTSI Workforce Development Team seeks to catalyze science in our region and nation by training tomorrow’s experts and fostering a workforce genuinely reflective of the communities we serve. | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) | We consult on grant submissions and study feasibility reviews, mentor junior faculty and others and assist with study and regulatory related issues as well as bringing additional expertise on international research as our directors have decades of experience implementing research projects globally | Duke researchers and staff working on HIV-related non-industry sponsored grants and studies | Contact cfar-clinical-core@duke.edu | |
| Duke Center for AIDS Research (CFAR): Clinical Core Facility | We consult on grant submissions and study feasibility reviews, mentor junior faculty and others and assist with study and regulatory related issues | Duke researchers and staff working on HIV-related non-industry sponsored grants and studies | Contact cfar-clinical-core@duke.edu | |
| Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI): Biomolecular Interaction Analysis Core | The DHVI BIA Core Facility provides basic and clinical researchers in the Duke community with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) and Bio-Layer Interferometry (BLI) instrumentation, as well as expertise and training in the characterization of biomolecular interactions | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Immune Profiling Core (DIPC): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Our overarching mission, "To identify immunologic signatures that predict clinical outcomes' | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Innovation Co-Lab | The Innovation Co-Lab (including Bluesmith 3D Printing Service) is a Duke Community resource for learning about, experimenting, and building with technology. We provide free workspace, equipment, and training to anyone in the Duke community | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Learning & Organization Development | Duke Learning & Organization Development provides computer labs, classrooms, and meeting space resources | Duke administrative staff for employee training or academic departments conducting in-service exams | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR) | DOCR provides navigation, tools, and training to support the conduct of clinical research in which Duke serves as an investigative site | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) Biomarkers Lab | The DUSON Biomarkers Lab offers processing, storage, and analysis of bio-samples for DUSON researchers | DUSON researchers; collaborators, as needed. Non-DUSON researchers can request a quote for services based on the project needs | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Duke+Data Science (+DS) | Duke+Data Science (+DS) provides training modules and learning experiences grounded in generalizable data science content, while partnering with individual units or groups to develop additional specialized content | Contact plus-datascience@duke.edu | ||
| Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Duke Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) has a range of light and fluorescence microscopy systems. | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Office of Assessment | The Office of Assessment, within the Office of the University Registrar, may be written in to competitive grant applications (e.g., NIH T34 and R25) | Faculty and student researchers studying learning and student development. | Contact jlh9@duke.edu | Yes |
| Office of Physician Scientist Development (OPSD) | OPSD empowers physician-scientists to launch successful research careers by providing access to funding opportunities, career mentorship, integrated research training, and education and professional development for students, trainees and junior faculty at Duke | Physician-Scientists, Trainees & Students | Access boilerplate language | |
| Office of Postdoctoral Services | The Office of Postdoctoral Services is the central resource for Duke's approximately 700 postdoctoral appointees, both on Campus and in the School of Medicine. OPS provides workshops, seminars, and individual career counseling to support postdoctoral training at Duke and prepare postdocs for successful careers in academia and beyond | Duke postdoctoral appointees | Access boilerplate language | |
| QualCore | QualCore faculty and staff partner with investigators to provide expertise and leadership in qualitative research design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation | Open to all Duke researchers, but researchers must obtain approval from the QualCore Leadership Team to partner with QualCore staff and faculty | Contact brian.perry@duke.edu or amy.corneli@duke.edu | Yes |
| Research Animal Pathology Core | Provide professional pathology services for animal model support | Contact rebecca.bacon@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Research Mentor Training | Foundational mentor training for faculty who plan to work with graduate students | Faculty who work with graduate students on their research | Access boilerplate language | |
| Surgery Training and Animal Research Core (STARC) | The Department of Surgery's STARC provides expertise and specialized surgical and technical support for large animal-based investigations and training | Principal investigators with approved Duke IACUC animal protocols in the Department of Surgery and/or Division of Surgical Sciences/Section or closely affiliated departments (in some cases) | Contact surgery-starc@duke.edu | Yes |
Service Centers, Equipment, and Other Research Resources
*If eligibility is blank, all Duke researchers are potentially eligible to utilize the facility or resource
This section includes some of the institutionally recognized Service Centers, along with additional resources available to Duke researchers. Access the comprehensive list of School of Medicine Service Centers here.
| Facility or Resource | Information | Eligibility | Boilerplate Language/Contact Info | Fee |
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| Advanced Light Imaging and Spectroscopy (ALIS) Facility | ALIS provides cutting-edge optical imaging technology that is beyond the reach of commercial instruments and has the expertise to adapt these microscopes and co-develop new microscopy approaches with Duke researchers | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Behavioral Health and Survey Research Core (BHSRC) | Behavioral Health and Survey Research Core provides three services: 1) survey development 2) qualitative data collection and analysis and 3) intervention development | All Duke researchers but priority is given to members of the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Contact christina.makarushka@duke.edu | Yes |
| BioRepository & Precision Pathology Center (BRPC): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Duke BRPC is a tissue, blood and fluid biorepository, tissue procurement service and research support core laboratory within the Department of Pathology | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| BioSight Service Center and Repository | Provide well characterized ocular tissues for research | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (BIAC) | A research center specializing in MR imaging and analysis services using advanced MRI technologies and expert support to facilitate research across campus, medical center and industry | Researchers must obtain approval from the BIAC Scientific Review Committee to utilize services | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Brain Stimulation Service Center (BSRC) | We offer capability to do neurostimulation sessions for research studies interested in including neurostimulation services | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Cancer Center Isolation Facility: Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Cancer Center Isolation Facility is dedicated to cancer research, providing a physical plant able to support work with hazardous materials at biosafety level 2 or 3, recombinant DNA, chemotherapeutics, as well as the maintenance of immunosuppressed and specific pathogen-free rodents | Contact keith.stpierre@duke.edu | ||
| Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Development (CAMRD) | The center houses a whole body 3T MRI with full research capabilities to perform MR imaging and spectroscopy studies on humans and large animals | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| CTSI Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Methods Core | The BERD Core (1) helps investigators navigate the analytic resource landscape at Duke (and partner institutions) to identify appropriate methodologists for collaboration and (2) provides biostatistics collaboration through long-term collaborative teams | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| CVRC Cardiovascular Physiology Core | We offer state-of-the-art, comprehensive invasive and non-invasive small rodent cardiovascular phenotyping services | Researchers with approved IACUC animal protocol | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| DOCR: Duke Early Phase Clinical Research Unit | Our services include nursing, recruitment, IRB submission support, laboratory, study coordination, and project management; enable us to execute high-intensity and procedure-heavy studies | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Asthma, Allergy and Airway Center | The Duke Asthma, Allergy, and Airway Center serves as a hub of patient-centered asthma and airway research efforts, aimed at better understanding airway and allergic diseases and evaluating new therapies to ultimately improve patients' lives | Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Research Investigators with funding for services | Contact jessica.shier@duke.edu | |
| Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Duke Cancer Institute was created as a novel and single entity to facilitate optimal integration of all cancer-related activities at Duke Medicine (now Duke Health) | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Cancer Institute (DCI): Bioinformatics Shared Resource | The Bioinformatics Shared Resource supports cancer-focused research of DCI members by applying and developing statistically and mathematically rigorous methods and computationally efficient tools, with strict adherence to the principles of reproducible analysis | Members of the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) engaing in cancer-focused research | Contact dcibioinformatics@duke.edu | |
| Duke Cancer Institute (DCI): Biostatistics Shared Resource | The Biostatistics Shared Resource supports the clinical, translational, and scientific research needs of the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) with respect to study design, conceptualization of research projects, analytic methods sections of grants and protocols, scientific review of protocols, participation in the DSMP, case report form (CRF) design, analysis for manuscripts and abstracts, data management, and other critical research activities | Members of the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Contact donna.niedzwiecki@duke.edu | |
| Duke Cancer Institute (DCI): Flow Cytometry Core (FCC) | The Flow Cytometry Core facilitates analysis and sorting of complex cell populations and provides expertise in assay design and data analysis | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Center for AIDS Research (CFAR): Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Core Facility | The Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Core of the Duke CFAR contributes to maximizing the impact of HIV/AIDS research by supporting SBS-focused interdisciplinary research across the University through its services including grant planning and preparation, peer review, post-award consultation, training and capacity building, networking and engagement, investigator mentorship, and dissemination support | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Center for Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Innovation (CIDDI) Biobank | Provision of expertise and services for the receipt, accessioning, storage, and return of clinical research biospecimens | Duke School of Medicine researchers | Access boilerplate language | |
| Duke Cancer Institute (DCI): Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility | The Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility provides capabilities for mass spectrometry based proteomics and metabolomics for identification and quantitation, including biomarker discovery and biomarker verification experiments | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Center for Human Systems Immunology (CHSI) | The CHSI utilizes advanced immunological technologies and computational methods to advance immune-facing clinical trials and is focused on the development of new methods for trauma, infection, and transplant-focused clinical studies. | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA): SSRI: DUPRI | Provides a synergistic, interdisciplinary environment for advancing cutting-edge research and cultivating faculty and students focused on the study of aging | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Population Research Center (DPRC): SSRI: DUPRI | Catalyzes cutting edge research into the fundamental questions of population well-being | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI): Accessioning Unit | Biorepository and sample processing | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI): Biomolecular Interaction Analysis Core | The DHVI BIA Core Facility provides basic and clinical researchers in the Duke community with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) and Bio-Layer Interferometry (BLI) instrumentation, as well as expertise and training in the characterization of biomolecular interactions | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI): Immunology Virology Quality Assessment Center Laboratory (IVQA) | The DHVI IVQAC Core offers a variety of HIV, SIV, SARS CoV2 testing, along with Flow Acquisition, PBMC Cryo Assessment, and Bacteriology testing | Contact ivqac-core@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI): Protein Production Facility | Large-scale protein production in mammalian cells | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI): Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) Animal Models Unit, Immunology Unit, Pathogens Unit, and Containment Lab | The DHVI RBL supports basic research aimed at developing drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines for emerging and reemerging infections, as well as biodefense. | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Immune Profiling Core (DIPC): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Our overarching mission, "To identify immunologic signatures that predict clinical outcomes' | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Innovation Co-Lab | Prototyping labs, services and technology training resources | Contact chip.bobbert@duke.edu | ||
| Duke Life Science Facility | The Life Science Facility provides laboratory reagents, supplies, oligonucleotides, and cell culture services to researchers throughout the Duke research community | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Marine Lab | The Nicholas School of the Environment's year-round coastal campus in Beaufort, N.C. is home to research, teaching and student life facilities | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI) | DMPI Provides four state-of-the-cores open to Duke researchers that cover metabolomics, molecular genomics, biomarkers and hum physiology testing | Contact dmpi@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI): Biomarkers Core Facility | The Biomarkers Core Facility provides quantitative profiling of biochemical and inflammatory markers using traditional and multiplex immunoassays | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI): Metabolic Flux Shared Resource | The Flux Core measures isotope incorporation into various metabolites for assessment of metabolic flux using comprehensive LC-MS/MS and GC/MS-based platforms. | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI): Metabolomics Shared Resource | The DMPI Metabolomics Laboratory provides targeted and untargeted mass spectrometry analysis of various biological matrices | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI): Molecular Genomics Core Facility | A core lab providing 10x Genomics single-cell RNA library generation, spatial transciptomics and proteomics, DNA genotyping, DNA methylation, and immunoassay services | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Research and Discovery @ RTP | Duke Research and Discovery @ RTP houses an outpatient clinical research facility which serves as the base of operations for the Duke Human Vaccine Institute's Vaccine and Trials Unit. The secured-access facility with adjacent parking includes: waiting area; 6 fully equipped exam rooms (1 ADA); phlebotomy room; vital signs station; ECG machine; sample-processing laboratory; and temperature monitored storage for investigational product. Outside investigative teams may have access to use the facility based upon the specific need and availability | Members of Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) and upon request; other Duke School of Medicine researchers as capacity allows and with approval | Contact lynn.harrington@duke.edu | |
| Duke Small Molecule Synthesis Facility (SMSF) | The SMSF provides custom small molecule synthesis on a fee for service basis | Research labs associated with the University or Medical Center | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Duke Transgenic Mouse Core: Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Provides Duke researchers with services for the production of custom designed, transgenic and gene targeted mice, and the ability to cryopreserve these reagents for storage and distribution | Researchers with approved IACUC animal protocol | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Duke University Health System Clinical Microbiology Laboratory | The Duke Laboratories Clinical Research Center (DLCRC) operates within the DUHS Clinical Laboratories to offer 1,000s of CAP- and CLIA-accredited clinical diagnostic tests and other research-related services to the Duke research community | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Investigational Drug Services (IDS) | Establish study-specific pharmaceutical procedures for safe and appropriate investigational drug accountability, storage, preparation, dispensing, destruction and billing | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Functional Genomics Core Facility: Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The FG Core Facility provides high-throughput functional genomic and compound screening services and custom cell line engineering | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Hemostasis & Thrombosis Center Core Lab | Specialty Coagulation Testing | Contact htccorel@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Interdisciplinary Behavioral Research Center (IBRC) | The IBRC provides infrastructure for behavioral and social science research at Duke, including a large behavioral research lab with various testing rooms at Erwin Mill, portable research equipment for off-site use, and a community participant pool | All researchers engaging in social and behavioral research | Access boilerplate language | |
| Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank and Biorepository | This is a biorepository for fixed and frozen postmortem brain tissue, CSF, and core lab providing histology service | Contact shihhsiu.wang@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Duke Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) has a range of light and fluorescence microscopy systems. | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Mice@Duke | Created and maintained by the Office for Research & Innovation and the myRESEARCHnavigators, Mice@Duke serves as a database of available mouse research strains on campus | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Microbiome Core Facility: Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Microbiome Core provides project management, sample processing, NGS library prep and data analysis services for Microbiome analysis | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Mouse Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Analysis Core Facility | The Core Facility can provide in-depth testing in numerous behavioral domains, as well as some neuroendocrine analyses. Core personnel are available to assist with experimental design, training, scheduling of testing, data analysis, and interpretation of results. | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| OneDukebio Integrated biospecimen Network's (ODIN). | Provides long-term sample storage with 24/7 monitoring using temperature alarm systems, emergency power, and two-fold redundant environmental control systems and operates in compliance with internationally-recognized Good Clinical Laboratory Practices and 21 CFR Part 11 | Contact ODIN@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Optical Molecular Imaging and Analysis Service Center (OMIA): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Optical Molecular Imaging and Analysis (OMIA) is a shared resource available to all Duke researchers that facilitates small animal imaging and spectroscopy, window chamber surgery training and support, user training in techniques, and scientific guidance on experimental design, data analysis and interpretation | All Duke researchers; subsidized rate for members of the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Core Laboratory: Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | Preclinical and clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; analysis of drugs, metabolites, biomarkers, and other small biomolecules by HPLC and LC/MS/MS | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Physics Instrument Shop | All processes need to construct Scientific hardware | Contact jelinek@phy.duke.edu | Yes | |
| PopHealth DataShare | The PopHealth DataShare (PHDS) is a designated shared resource at the Duke University School of Medicine, and facilitates Duke researcher access to health data from many different sources, coupled with the regulatory, project management, programming, informatics and biostatistics expertise | Limited to Duke researchers, students, and certain non-Duke collaborators | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| QualCore | QualCore faculty and staff partner with investigators to provide expertise and leadership in qualitative research design, implementation, analysis, and interpretation | Open to all Duke researchers, but researchers must obtain approval from the QualCore Leadership Team to partner with QualCore staff and faculty | Contact brian.perry@duke.edu or amy.corneli@duke.edu | Yes |
| Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) Containment Lab | The RBL at Duke has a comprehensive safety and operations program to provide state-of-the-art containment facilities for BSL2, enhanced BSL2, and BSL3 research | Contact rosemarie.asrican@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) Virology Unit | The RBL Virology Unit is a service component of the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at Duke (housed in GHRB). The Virology Unit was created to provide world-class quality-controlled support for virus research requiring up to and including enhanced biosafety level 3 containment. In addition to the influenza program the Virology Unit has expertise in work with influenza virus, coronaviruses, alphaviruses, flaviviruses, poxviruses, rotavirus and vesicular stomatitis virus | Contact thomas.oguin@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Research Animal Pathology Core | Provide professional pathology services for animal model support | Contact rebecca.bacon@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Robertson GMP Lab Facility | This is a FACT accredited, FDA approved GMP Cell manufacturing facility | MC3 trained staff | Contact lynn.cheatham@duke.edu | Yes |
| Sequencing & Genomic Technologies Core (SGT): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource (SGT), provides DNA and RNA sequencing services using a variety of Next Generation sequencing platforms and library preparation types | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) | SMIF is a shared instrument resource for cleanroom fabrication, characterization and imaging | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Small Animal Irradiator Service Center | The Duke Small Animal Irradiator shared resource is available to all Duke researchers for self-guided or core assisted research | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Substrate Services Core Research Support (SSCRS) | SSCRS is comprised of three functional units: Biospecimen processing, Molecular Biology and Histology and serves a centralized biological specimen processing core, management center and biorepository for a wide variety of biological research samples for large clinical, consortium based collaborations, as well as basic and discovery science by serving as a single point of contact in protocol development, standardized biospecimen collection, specimen processing and preparation methods, as well as biospecimen shipping, receiving and distribution | Contact marybeth.joshi@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Surgery Training and Animal Research Core (STARC) | The Department of Surgery's STARC provides expertise and specialized surgical and technical support for large animal-based investigations and training | Principal investigators with approved Duke IACUC animal protocols in the Department of Surgery and/or Division of Surgical Sciences/Section or closely affiliated departments (in some cases) | Contact surgery-starc@duke.edu | Yes |
| Translational PET/CT Molecular Imaging Center | This facility provides small-animal PET imaging services with radiolabeled molecular imaging agents and images co-registered with high-resolution CT images for anatomical reference | Contact satish.chitneni@duke.edu | Yes | |
| Xenon MRI Service Center | The resource provides human research 129Xe MRI scans of pulmonary function and structure | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
Technology
*If eligibility is blank, all Duke researchers are potentially eligible to utilize the facility or resource
| Facility or Resource | Information | Eligibility | Boilerplate Language/Contact Info | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Light Imaging and Spectroscopy (ALIS) Facility | ALIS provides cutting-edge optical imaging technology that is beyond the reach of commercial instruments and has the expertise to adapt these microscopes and co-develop new microscopy approaches with Duke researchers | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| BioRepository & Precision Pathology Center (BRPC): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Duke BRPC is a tissue, blood and fluid biorepository, tissue procurement service and research support core laboratory within the Department of Pathology | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Innovation Co-Lab | The Innovation Co-Lab (including Bluesmith 3D Printing Service) is a Duke Community resource for learning about, experimenting, and building with technology. We provide free workspace, equipment, and training to anyone in the Duke community | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Life Science Facility | The Life Science Facility provides laboratory reagents, supplies, oligonucleotides, and cell culture services to researchers throughout the Duke research community | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| Duke Research Computing and Protected Network for Research (PNR) | Specialized compute and storage resources for computationally or data intensive analysis | Duke PIs and their designees working with non-sensitive data. Some non-Duke collaborators, including students (must be approved on project documentation (IRB, DUA, contracts, affiliations, etc)) | Access boilerplate language | |
| Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) Biomarkers Lab | The DUSON Biomarkers Lab offers processing, storage, and analysis of bio-samples for DUSON researchers | DUSON researchers; collaborators, as needed. Non-DUSON researchers can request a quote for services based on the project needs | Access boilerplate language | Yes |
| Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Duke Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) has a range of light and fluorescence microscopy systems. | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| myRESEARCHsuite | myRESEARCHsuite leverages three services to help connect researchers to the information, systems, and resources they need to successfully conduct and manage their research at Duke | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Office of Academic Solutions and Information Systems (OASIS): SoM Research Enclave (SRE) | OASIS, and The School of Medicine Research Enclave (SRE) collaborates with Duke researchers to identify, design, and implement innovative computing solutions that accelerate biomedical discovery. SRE is made up of the Protected Research Compute Cluster (PRCC, formerly PACE), and the Research Compute Cluster (RCC, formerly HPC) | School of Medicine affiliates | Access boilerplate language | |
| Research Electronic Data Captured (REDCap) | REDCap is a secure web platform for building and managing online databases and surveys | Access boilerplate language | ||
| Sequencing & Genomic Technologies Core (SGT): Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) | The Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource (SGT), provides DNA and RNA sequencing services using a variety of Next Generation sequencing platforms and library preparation types | Access boilerplate language | Yes | |
| The Duke Research Data Repository | The Duke Research Data Repository accepts data, documentation, software, and other code related to the teaching and research mission of Duke University, including data linked to a publication, research project, and/or class projects | All research data must be openly accessible (no PHI, PII, restrictions). All data is curated to ensure compliance | Access boilerplate language | |
| Xenon MRI Service Center | The resource provides human research 129Xe MRI scans of pulmonary function and structure | Access boilerplate language | Yes |