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Platform Technologies

NEW! UCL Research Equipment Catalogue is available for searching.


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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UCL Biobank Joint Research Office

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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UCL Genomics enquiries@genomics.ucl.ac.uk

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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UCL Proteomics proteomics@ucl.ac.uk

UCL ChemiBank

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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microscopy@ucl.ac.uk

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

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

Centre for Medical Image Computing

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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UCL Biological Services

UCL Zebrafish Facility

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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Computational Biology

Computational Life and Medical Sciences

Systems Biology

News and Events

The SLMS Capital Equipment call is now open for applications. Go to the funding page for further details (UCL login required) or contact Jacky Pallas.

Deadline

5.00pm Monday 28 January 2013

Download the application form

Proteomics seminar

Wed 21 November 12.00-2.00

Medawar Building

G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre

Contact John Timms

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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