Please contact the relevant PI directly to discuss possible collaborations.

 Bile duct ligation  Kari Nejak-Bowen
 Body composition by proton-NMR  Michael Jurczak
 Special chemistry lab in the CLB (Pathology): offers assays for several drugs and vitamins; provides consultation for preclinical and clinical drug study designs.  Raman Venkataramanan
 Drug Discovery Institute: collaborates with faculty interested in including drug discovery, development and computational pathology in their research programs  Lans Taylor, Director of University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute
https://www.upddi.pitt.edu/
 Flow Cytometry  Eric Lagasse
 Hepatocyte culture work – In vitro  Raman Venkataramanan
 Histology, basic  Sarangarajan Ranganathan (through CHP Pathology Division, research core laboratory)
 Hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp with isotopic tracers  Michael Jurczak
 Imaging — Ultrasound Thermal Strain

Imaging — Micro-vasculature network in vivo at high resolution

 Kang Kim
 Immune assay development and conduct  Lisa Butterfield, Director of UPCI Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Products Laboratory
http://upci.upmc.edu/imcpl/
 Immunohistochemical support for workup of antibodies  Sarangarajan Ranganathan (through CHP Pathology Division, research core laboratory)
 In vitro microfluidic platforms to test molecular targets in patient blood samples  Prithu Sundd
 In vivo animal studies  Raman Venkataramanan
 Inflammation biomarker analyses (e.g. Luminex™, ELISA, etc.)  Yoram Vodovotz
 Isolated Liver perfusion  Raman Venkataramanan
 Liver perfusion  Kari Nejak-Bowen
 Magnetic activated cell sorter [Miltenyi Biotec]: magnets (Mini, Midi, and QuadroMACS) with stands  Eva Schmelzer, in collaboration with Joerg Gerlach
 Metabolomic analysis. We provide both untargeted metabolomics (global metabolites) and targeted metabolomics (such as bile acids, drugs, and drug metabolites).  Xiaochao Ma
 Laser capture microdissection  Michael Oertel
 Metabolic cage analysis for energy expenditure, feeding and activity  Michael Jurczak
 Microscopy – Intravital in live mice

Microscopy – Live cell

Microscopy – Total internal reflection fluorescence

 Prithu Sundd   

 

 NexGen sequencing  Obaid Shaikh, in collaboration with Dr Scott Kulich (Chief of Molecular Anatomic Pathology at the VA)
 Odyssey Infrared Scanner [Licor]  Eva Schmelzer, in collaboration with Joerg Gerlach
 Proteomics  Nathan Yates
 Real-time PCR [Applied Biosystems]  Eva Schmelzer, in collaboration with Joerg Gerlach
 Recruitment of patients for clinical studies and for the collection of samples used to further understand and explore hepatobiliary diseases affecting children  James Squires
 Software and analytic support for quantitating muscle mass on cross sectional imaging.  Michael Dunn
 Tissue Processing  Sarangarajan Ranganathan (through CHP Pathology Division, research core laboratory)
 IRB-approved pathway available for faculty colleagues who may want to explore clinical applications of wearable physical activity monitoring.  Michael Dunn