The Biological Imaging Facility, a Chemistry of Life Processes Core (CLP) research and training facility, serves the imaging needs of over 500 scientists representing 144 different labs from 23 different departments. BIF is organized so users can prepare samples, capture and analyze images, and create final presentations in one facility. Training for most instruments is available on a regular basis so users can acquire data quickly and efficiently.
The Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI) provides access to imaging modalities ranging from the nanometer scale to whole animal imaging. These include MRI, nuclear imaging (PET, SPECT, and CT), in vivo bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging, animal housing and prep spaces, and tissue culture. Specialized instruments include a 9.4T Bruker Biospec MRI System for hardware-intensive experiments.
Northwestern Proteomics, a Proteomics Center of Excellence within the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP), is the leading lab in the world for the top-down proteomics approach. CLP Director Neil L. Kelleher has been successful in driving both technology development and applications of very high-performance mass spectrometry in chemistry and biology.
The Center for Fundamental Physics with Tabletop Experiments (CFP) is a long-term initiative of Northwestern University and its Department of Physics and Astronomy. Its faculty members, graduate students and undergraduates specialize in tabletop experiments that investigate the particles, interactions, and symmetries of the universe - to test and help develop our most fundamental theoretical descriptions.
Northwestern’s High Throughput Analysis Lab (NU-HTA) is a premier open resource that provides Chicago’s life science community an affordable way to set up, run, gather data and perform analysis from tens to tens of thousands of parallel experiments using up-to-date instruments. This includes drug discovery research, biochemistry, cell and organismal biology, functional genomic screening, and synthetic genetic analysis. It has excellent in-house tissue culture and can produce and use lentivirus particles.
The Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center (IMSERC) supports research in the areas of (but not limited to) molecular characterization, drug discovery, materials science, environmental research, translational medical research, nanotechnology, chemical biology, catalysis, pharmacokinetics, clinical research, and molecular imaging. IMSERC is a "one-stop-shop", open-access facility that provides and maintains a suite of state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation.
The Keck Biophysics Facility provides access to a collection of advanced instruments and services for biophysical characterization of macromolecules and their interactions. Training, technical expertise, and assistance are provided by the facility personnel.
The Quantitative Bio-element Imaging Center (QBIC) was established as a Center within Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) Institute as a key component in an unprecedented collaborative, interdisciplinary effort to map the “inorganic signatures of life,” transitional metal atoms that are found within all living cells and conserved during evolutionary processes.
The Structural Biology Facility provides state-of-the-art equipment, training, technical support, and maintenance of equipment indispensable for structural biologists and other researchers studying the structures of biological macromolecules and materials. It plays an essential role in the research programs of investigators who are studying the relationship between macromolecular structure and function, using macromolecular structure as the starting point for structure-based drug design, or needing to characterize complex biomaterials.
The inorganic faculty in the Chemistry Department bring an interdisciplinary and collaborative focus to their diverse interests in materials and solid-state chemistry, bio-inorganic science, and nano-chemistry. For over 50 years, the inorganic faculty has been a leader at Northwestern University in establishing numerous interdisciplinary centers and institutes spanning materials science, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, bioinorganic-molecular biology, and sustainability and energy.