Research Laboratory

The SCTR Research Nexus Laboratory serves as technical assistance for SCTR-approved clinical research investigators. The lab is open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and staff are well trained to support investigators. The laboratory and its expert staff promote the development of new methods to support clinical research. Services include investigator consultation, sample processing, banking and shipping, immunoassays, nucleic acid extraction, and custom service development, as requested by investigators.

Facilities & Equipment

The lab is a newly renovated, secure, limited-access site accessible only to authorized personnel. It includes eleven work benches, six -80°C freezers, six refrigerated centrifuges, two biological safety cabinets, one liquid nitrogen freezer, one -20°C, and one fume hood. An automated, continuous temperature monitoring system is in use for all critical temperature-controlled equipment in the lab.

The lab’s suite of equipment supports a range of research techniques:

  • Tecan Infinite 200 PRO multimode microplate reader with Magellan software
  • Orflo Moxi GO II, for methods requiring cell count and viability
  • QIAGEN QIAcube for nucleic acid and protein purification
  • QIAGEN QIAxpert for spectrophotometry

Contact

Amy Gandy, MS
Research Laboratory Manager
843-792-2595
gandya@musc.edu

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