UTHealth Houston encourages the development of collaborative relationships among faculty around research and academic mission-related interests. To support these collaborations, UTHealth Houston enables academic departments, schools, and the university to establish research service centers (RSCs), shared research resources, and other collaborative research facilities and services that advance specific research and academic missions. These resources may include fee-for-service capabilities as well as shared, collaborative infrastructure and centers that provide broader support for faculty research programs. Together, these resources support UTHealth Houston’s growing research enterprise.
To explore trends in research activity, funding, and proposal development across the university, visit the UTHealth Houston Blue Ridge Research Performance Dashboard and the UTHealth Houston Internal Awards and Proposals Dashboard.
To learn more about the policies governing the development and administration of RSCs and related shared research resources, see Development and Administration of Research Service Centers.
Provides state-of-the-art preclinical imaging with a simultaneous 7T Bruker PET-MRI system and IconeUS functional ultrasound.
Services:
In vivo and ex vivo MRI, PET/MRI, functional ultrasound imaging, imaging data analysis, behavioral lab access, and assisted surgical room access.
Supports UTHealth Houston’s biomedical research programs by providing laboratory animal care in coordination with the institutional Animal Welfare Committee (AWC).
Services:
Veterinary care, surgical support, animal care, and training on the care and use of research animals.
Provides high-resolution in vivo and ex vivo microCT imaging using a Bruker SkyScan 1276 system for small animals and specimens.
Services:
In vivo and ex vivo microCT scanning, 3D imaging, quantitative image analysis, and assisted or independent instrument use.
Provides advanced mouse behavioral testing and neural circuit research support for basic and translational neuroscience studies.
Services:
Behavioral phenotyping, cognitive testing, EEG/EMG, optogenetics, fiber photometry, live-animal brain imaging, neurostimulation, stereotaxic procedures, device implantation, and data analysis.
Provides equipment and expertise for assessment of small-animal cardiovascular structure and physiology.
Services:
Vevo 3100 echocardiography and CODA tail-cuff blood pressure measurement.
