Overview
At Michigan State University, our commitment to research excellence is supported by a robust array of shared research resources. These resources are designed to meet the diverse needs of our faculty, students, and staff, facilitating cutting-edge research within and across disciplinary boundaries. Advanced resources include:
- Research Cores: Specialized facilities that provide access to instruments, technologies, services, and expert consultation to scientific and clinical researchers
- Computing and Data Science Tools: Critical resources for managing, analyzing, and storing data.
- Research Services: Specialized services required for some modes of research
- Research Collections: A range of collections of items that are preserved, catalogued, and managed for the purpose of scholarly study
- Research Field Stations: Unique outdoor facilities that serve as living laboratories in both natural and agricultural settings
- User Facilities: Federally sponsored research facilities
- Other Technologies and Instrumentation: Additional state-of-the-art technologies or instrumentation
Cores and Shared Research Resources at MSU
Research Cores
Research Technology Support Facility (RTSF)
The RTSF is a collection of core facilities that provide the fundamental tools for modern life science research, including Genomics, Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics, Proteomics, IVIS Imaging, Transgenics & CRISPR, Cryo-EM, Flow Cytometry, Bioinformatics.
Elemental Health Institute (EHI)
The EHI is composed of Quantitative Bio Element Analysis and Mapping (QBEAM) and Quantitative Elemental Mapping for the Life Sciences (QE-Map), and serves as an interdisciplinary center focused on elemental mapping and analysis that creates transformative approaches to answer biological questions about the functions of metals and other essential elements in health and disease.
Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering Core Facilities (IQ)
The IQ Core Facilities provide investigators with advanced technologies for Advanced Molecular Imaging, Flow Cytometry, 3D Printing, Microscopy, Transgenic and Genome Editing.
Pharmacology and Toxicology Facilities
At all corners of MSU, Pharmacology and Toxicology facilities assist researchers, offer development expertise and provide essential models and other services, such as Assay Development and Drug Repurposing, Medicinal Chemistry, High-Frequency Ultrasound, Flow Cytometry, and small scale prototyping.
Radiology Imaging Facilities
The Radiology Imaging Facilities provide a suite of whole body high resolution imaging equipment, such as GE Signa HDX 3.0T MRI, Bruker 7.0T Animal Preclinical MRI, Bruker 9.4T, and an eXplore Locus Micro CT Scanner.
Center for Advanced Microscopy (CAM)
The Center is a central microscopy laboratory for the MSU, and provides MSU researchers with formal graduate level instruction and 24/7 access to scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, laser capture microscopes, and confocal laser scanning microscopes.
Light Stable Isotope Core Facility
The MSU light stable isotope core facility provides the needed instrumentation, supporting capabilities, and staff expertise to assist experimental design, provide analytical measurements, and contribute to data interpretation ofresearch questions using stable isotopes.
Computing and Data Science Resources
Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER)
Provides the cyberinfrastructure for researchers from across academia and industry to perform their computational research. ICER supports multidisciplinary research in all facets of computational sciences.
Center for Statistical Training and Consulting (CSTAT)
The Center for Statistical Training and Consulting is a professional service and research unit that collaborates on research projects and provides statistical support and services to MSU affiliated faculty, staff, and graduate students, and off-campus clients.