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The Institute manages eight shared research facilities. These facilities represent a $25M investment in high‐end instrumentation and expertise and provide 50 new services that enable investigators to identify, design and refine potential new therapeutics and diagnostics and to visualize their activity in living cells and tissues. The cores’ PhD level personnel develop powerful new tools and methods to support new basic and translational research at Northwestern and across the Midwest.

Biological Imaging Facility

Photonic and electron instruments, allowing researchers to capture high-quality images and videos of their specimens.

Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging

Imaging resources span length scales of molecules to whole animals. Instruments include MRI, IVIS Spectrum, SPECT, and PET.

Developmental Therapeutics Core

Operational laboratory that supports translational projects and exploratory drug development work.

High Throughput Analysis Laboratory

Instrumentation and expertise for the development and execution of high throughput biological analysis and screening.

Proteomics Core

Instrumentation and expertise to analyze proteins using mass spectrometry. Specializing in intact protein analysis.

Quantitative Bio-element Imaging Center

Quantitation and localization of bioelements using ICP mass spec, customized Hitachi HD2300 STEM for cryo-bio EM, and atomic absorption mass spectometry.

Award-Winning Service

Our highly trained staff and research faculty are valuable collaborators on research publications and, year after year, and our cores are consistently recognized for their outstanding customer service. 

Seven out of eight Chemistry of Life Processes Institute-affiliated cores were recognized with 2020 Core Facilities Service Excellence Awards (SEAs) by the Office for Research at Northwestern.  Each scored as either “Outstanding” or “Excellent” in at least five of the eight criteria used by the Office for Research’s Core Facilities Administration to evaluate cores.

The 2020 Awardees were: