Medical Students
Biomedical Engineering
Sites in Education
Research resources and collaborators
Summary and
quick links
Centers, institutes, and programs
Research core facilities at the SOM (
description/Office of
Research Core Administration site)
List of equipment available in SOM research core facilities
Research core
facilities across the Commonwealth (Virginia Research Resources
Consortium)
UVA Bioconnector (
description/site)
Finding research collaborators
Research
Faculty Directory
Faculty Resources Search Engine (
description/
site)
UVA faculty with
international research interests (requires log-in)
Resources
supporting research involving human subjects/specimens or
animals
Center for Comparative Medicine (
description/
site)
School
of Medicine Clinical Research Unit
Clinical Trials Office (
description/site)
Clinical Data Repository (
description/
site)
SOM surplus
equipment recycling
UVA supply
recycling program - cheap supplies (M.E.R.C.I.)
SOM poster boards
Transgenic
mice at the SOM (courtesy Gene Targeting & Transgenic
Facility)
Programming and compute resource
support for computationally intensive research (UVA Alliance for
Computational Science and Engineering)
UVA BioConnector. The BioConnector is a research web portal for tools in the area of bioinformatics. At this single site, users can access bioinformatics resources and tools, educational content, and collaborative technologies.
Finding research collaborators at UVA
Graduate Programs Office Research Faculty Directory. This is a searchable directory of Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and other research faculty at the SOM and select other UVA schools.
Faculty Resources Search Engine (intranet). This is a database of faculty expertise, equipment, assays, techniques, and materials such as bacterial strains, cell lines, and plasmids. To add information to your database, select "Edit Intranet Only Information" on the left of the linked page.
Resources supporting research involving human subjects/specimens or animals
Center for Comparative Medicine. The University's AAALAC-accredited facility supports biomedical research utilizing animals. Services include training, veterinary support, animal housing, etc.
Clinical Trials Office. The CTO supports the development of proposals and protocols for clinical research, clinical coordinators, and data management, biostatistical, and QA/QC.
Clinical Data Repository. The CDR is a database facility allowing authorized researchers to access UVA health care data, including individual data from the UVA patient information systems (demographics, diagnoses, procedures, financials, patient tracking, length of stay, etc.) and comparative statewide and national datasets. Integrated into this are clinically-rich departmental datasets for selected subsets of patients. Patient identifiers are encrypted or omitted to protect patient confidentiality and privacy.
Research Core Facilities. The School of Medicine supports several state-of-the-art core facilities that are available to investigators on a fee-for-service basis. These facilities are administered by Dr. Jay Fox, Associate Dean for Research Infrastructure. Each core is overseen by a faculty committee; the SOM Research Advisory Committee (RAC) reviews core facilities annually on behalf of the dean. Office of Research Core Administration provides links to individual research core facilities; the Virginia Research Resources web site lists core facilities at institutions across the Commonwealth that UVA investigators can access.
UVA Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering. UVASCE (e-mail: uvasce@virginia.edu) supports investigators across the University with free consultations for issues related to computationally-intensive research, provision of "tiger teams" to solve computer-intensive problems that act as roadblocks to productive research, and the management of compute resources (e.g., ITS cluster, cross-campus grid). Examples of programming projects initiated for SOM faculty include:
- Craig Nunemaker (Department of Medicine): Detection of phase transitions in pancreatic islet response traces
- Jae Lee Public Health Sciences): Identifying key genetic interactions Type II Diabetes
- Aaron Mackey (Public Health Sciences): Better scientific workflow management tools in a cluster/grid environment
