Outside of the CFAR Core Facilities, there are a a wide range of facilities to support the multi-disciplinary nature of on-going research at Lifespan, Tufts University and Brown University.

Specific facilities available to CFAR investigators are:

• Brown University AIDS Containment Facility
  
  
• Confocal Microscopy Core
  
  
• EpiMatrix facility, Brown University TB/HIV Research Laboratory (computer driven algorithms which have been applied to TB and HIV immunopathogenesis and vaccine research)
  
  
• Flow Cytometry Laboratory
  
  
• General Clinical Research Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center (Phase I and II trials)
  
  
• GRASP Digestive Diseases Research Center, New England Medical Center
  
  
• Tufts Medical Center Transgenic Core Facility (pronuclear microinjection for the production of standard transgenic mice, and blastocyst injections for the production of knockout and knock-in mice)
  
  
• Tufts University Core Facility (DNA Sequencing, DNA Synthesis, Peptide Synthesis)