Cores and Platforms

ACH BioCORE

The BioCORE provides biobanking and bioanalysis support for researchers undertaking pediatric translational research projects at the University of Calgary and the Alberta Children's Hospital.

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ACH Clinical Therapeutics and Research Unit

A clinical research unit committed to enhancing research capacity by developing the infrastructure, core capacities, partnerships, and resources needed to expand access to clinical therapeutics and to support research at the Alberta Children's Hospital.

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Centre for Health Genomics and Informatics

The Centre for Health Genomics and Informatics (CHGI) provides a wide range of next-generation sequencing services and access to high-performance bioinformatics for sequence analysis to University of Calgary researchers. The objective is to build the technological, bioinformatics and human resource capacity required to support the research and health care needs of our university and the province, in alignment with the precision medicine strategy and genomics priority of the Cumming School of Medicine and the University of Calgary.

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Child and Adolescent Imaging Research (CAIR)

The Child and Adolescent Imaging Research (CAIR) program at the Alberta Children's Hospital brings together a group of imaging scientists with the shared goals of understanding how the brain develops in children, and where it is vulnerable in developmental and psychiatric disorders.

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CSM Microscopy and Imaging Facility

Located at the Cumming School of Medicine at UCalgary, the Microscopy and Imaging Facility (MIF) is a world-class facility providing electron and fluorescence microscopy imaging equipment and advanced image analysis capabilities to University researchers and external users.

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