Clinical and Translational Research Unit (CTRU)
Specimen processing, shipping services and custom analyses.
What they do
- Services
- Specimen processing
- Shipping services
- Custom analyses
- Research courier services
- Short-term sample management
- Long-term sample management
- Derivative isolation
- PBMC extraction
- DNA and RNA isolation
- Multi-disciplinary research care
- Protocol-specific research activities
- Biospecimen collections
- CLIA sample collection
- Horiba CBC with DIFF
- CRP testing
- HCT testing
- Nova clinical chemistry
- Glucose testing
- Hemoglobin testing
- Hemoglobin A1C
- Urine pregnancy testing
- Stim prep
- Serum isolation
- Plasma from EDTA tubes
- Plasma from heparin tubes
- PBMC from SepMates
- PBMC direct ficoll
- PBMC EDTA direct ficoll
- Granulocyte isolation
- Trizol RNA extraction
- BSL2 laboratories
- Biosafety cabinets
- Refrigerated centrifuges
- Research-grade diagnostic tests
- 80C freezers
- Liquid nitrogen freezers
- 20 C and +4 C storage
- Patient bays
- Hospital beds
- Pediatric study rooms
- Exam room
- Consultation rooms
- Isolation rooms
- Observation room
- Dietary research kitchen