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Shared Resource: Investigational Chemotherapy Service Lab

The Investigational Chemotherapy Service is one of two labs making up the Pharmaceutical Shared Resource. Putting a new cancer medication through the ...

July 7, 2015

DCI Research Shared Resources

Shared Resource: Light Microscopy Core Facility

The Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) is a shared resource providing access to microscopy and image analysis resources. The LMCF contains more tha...

January 10, 2015

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Shared Resource: Information Systems

Duke Cancer Institute Information Systems (DCI-IS) is a shared resource comprised of personnel and sophisticated computer software that process or int...

November 3, 2015

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Shared Resource: Biostatistics

In many ways, rocket science has nothing on cancer research. Rocket science is firmly based on the reproducible domain of physics. Rockets and fuels c...

May 12, 2015

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Shared Resources: Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field in which scientists develop methods and software tools for storing, retrieving, organizing and analyzing ...

September 11, 2014

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Shared Resource: Behavioral Health & Survey Research Core

Most of the Duke Cancer Institute’s shared resources offer a glimpse into a smaller world, whether by allowing researchers to better understand the sh...

August 7, 2015

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Shared Resource: Optical Molecular Imaging and Analysis

Of all the resources available to aid in cancer research, luciferase–a group of enzymes responsible for the bioluminescent activity of fireflies and o...

February 10, 2015

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Shared Resource: Primary Tumor Cell Culture

A developing CCSG Shared Resource, Primary Tumor Cell Culture (PTCC), is creating hundreds of new primary malignant and normal epithelial cell lines. ...

February 16, 2016

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Shared Resource: Biospecimen Repository Processing Core

Around the world, volunteers save thousands of lives by donating everything from organs, blood, platelets, and even bone marrow to patients in need. P...

June 9, 2015

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Shared Resource: Proteomics

According to the National Cancer Institute, the greatest hope for the prevention and treatment of cancer exists in the understanding of molecular basi...

November 10, 2014

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Shared Resource: Integrative Cancer Genomics

The Integrative Cancer Genomics Shared Resource assembles Duke’s vast genomic technologies, enabling comprehensive consultation, seamless management o...

September 8, 2015

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Shared Resource: Isolation Facility

More than 40 years ago, the fledgling Cancer Center Isolation Facility (CCIF) shared resource received a windfall of equipment thanks to an unlikely s...

March 10, 2015

Shared Resources DCI Research

Pre-Clinical Translational Research Unit

Led by Greg Palmer, PhD, chief director, and Gabi Hanna, MD, executive director, the Duke Pre-clinical Translational Research Unit provides Duke Ca...

March 16, 2016

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Ivan Spasojevic, PhD, co-director of PK/PD Core Laboratory, poses with the state-of-the-art LC/MS/MS, AB/Sciex API 5500 QTrap, a sophisticated instrument used for drug discovery and metabolism research.

Shared Resource: PK/PD Core Lab

Please Note: The PK/PD Core Lab is one of two labs making up the Pharmaceutical Research Shared Resource. Click here to read about the Investigational...

July 6, 2015

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Shared Resource: Flow Cytometry

Thirty-five years after its founding, the Duke Cancer Institute’s oldest shared resource remains as important as ever. Established in 1979, the DCI’s ...

December 16, 2014

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Shared Resource: Transgenic and Knockout Mouse

Transgenic mice genetically engineered to develop cancer is a relatively new technology first realized during the 1980s. Since that time genetically m...

October 13, 2015

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Shared Resource: NMR Spectroscopy

Even at the molecular level, life doesn’t sit still. In the real world, organic biomolecules are a far cry from the static, simplified models often de...

April 14, 2015

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