Research & Support at the Academic Health Center

University health research stories, breakthroughs, and background

From the first-ever bone marrow transplant to the development of anti-HIV drugs, we translate research into innovative, excellent patient care.

Discover services and facilities available to researchers affiliated with individual AHC schools.

Units that serve researchers within the school:

Lillehei Heart Institute Flow Cytometry Core Facility: Flow cytometry and multi-parameter cell sorting instrumentation for Lillehei Heart Institute core investigators.

Units that serve researchers within the college:

AeroCore Inhalation Testing Research Service Facility: Characterization of aerosol particles, exposure of rodents to aerosol particles or vapor, rodent examinations, and disease induction in animal models.
Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development: Biological and screening services as well as chemistry (medicinal, organic, process, analytical, and purification).
Center for Translational Drug Delivery: Preformulation, formulation development, preclinical biological testing, and analytical services.

Units that serve researchers within the school:

Office of Nursing Research and Scholarship: Comprehensive grant assistance to faculty and students.

Units that serve researchers within the school:

Epidemiology Clinical Research Center (ECRC): Facilities for research in osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, estrogen, exercise, and cardiovascular disease prevention.
Nutrition Coordinating Center (NCC): Methods and databases for researchers collecting and analyzing dietary data.
Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC): Assistance for researchers interested in using Medicare and Medicaid data for their research.

Units that serve researchers within the college:

Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory: Full-service laboratory for animal health diagnosis.
Minnesota Urolith Center: Quantitative urolith analysis utilizing primarily optical crystallography and infrared spectroscopy.
Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory: Hematology, coagulation, and biochemical testing, urinalysis, and body fluid analysis for a variety of species.
Blood and Laboratory Support Services: Bovine blood, full chemistry and hematology analysis, contract research, and other services.