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Platform Technologies
A portal for the research infrastructure of the UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences.
Research Facilities
Biobank and clinical research support
UCL Biobank
The UCL biobanking platform has been developed with the aim
of maximising the benefit of UCL's biospecimen collections for
translational research.
Research Support Centre
The Research Support Centre brings together all the clinical research management and support services for UCL, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust.
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Genomics and genotyping
The Genomics and genotyping platform includes several core laboratories which provide services for next generation and Sanger sequencing, detection of SNP and copy number variants, epigenetic DNA modifications, and gene and microRNA expression. For more details go to the Genomics and genotyping platform page
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Proteomics and protein analysis
The proteomics and protein analysis platform covers a range of methodologies - high throughput mass spectrometry, protein structure determination, biophysical techniques to determine protein size and shape, enzyme kinetics, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. The UCL ChemiBank is a new resource for identifying small molecule ligands for proteins.It contains a large compound collection and a range of chemoinformatic and biological assay services is offered.
For more details go to the proteomics and protein analysis platform page
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Molecular and cellular imaging
The molecular and cellular imaging platform at UCL comprises all facilities offering access to confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, high throughput imaging screens, histology services and flow cytometry.
For more details go to the Molecular and cellular imaging page.
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Pre-clinical and clinical imaging
UCL has significant activity in clinical and pre-clinical imaging with several research groups who are international Centres of Excellence in their own right. For more details about imaging applications ranging from clinical medicine to methods in physics and computation go to the Animal Imaging, Human Imaging or Imaging Informatics page.
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Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging
Transgenics and biological services
The Transgenics and Biological Services platform provides access to genetically altered animal databases, both mouse and zebrafish. Some information is available only to UCL licence holders.
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Computational and systems biomedicine
UCL has several centres and networks for computational and systems research in biology and medicine. For more details about infrastructure for research computing and analysis go to the Informatics platform page.
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News and Events
SLMS Capital Equipment call
During 2012
SLMS will be making strategic investment in its research infrastructure through
UCL Capital equipment funds and the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic
Support Fund. Applications are sought for multi-user equipment. Priority will
be given to proposals with cross-faculty and multidisciplinary applications. Applicants
are strongly encouraged to seek matching funds.
Further details and application form for the SLMS Capital Equipment call
Deadline 5.00pm Thursday 24 May
Alzheimers Research UK Equipment grants
Equipment grants provide between £10,000 and £100,000 for scientific
equipment, flexibly defined. Joint funding applications for even larger
pieces are accepted. There are two application rounds for Equipment
grants each year.
Deadline 20 April 2012
The Platform Technologies Development
initiative, led by Professor Sir Salvador Moncada FRS, provides a framework by
which UCL can maximise its investment in research infrastructure. The core
platform technologies at UCL are biobanks, chemibank, genomics, proteomics, imaging, biological services and
transgenics, with informatics underpinning all these activities. Each
platform has a remit to develop facilities which are open to all UCL staff and
funded on a cost-recovery basis.
UCL allocated £7.8M Capital
Infrastructure Funding (CIF) to invest in new equipment which has been distributed
through the Platform Technologies initiative, making 35 individual awards to
laboratories and facilities across the School of Life and Medical Sciences. A list of awards is available here.
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