Becoming a Core Facility | Overview
A core facility provides access to instruments, technologies, resources, and services, in addition to expert consultation to multiple groups to support diverse research activities.
What is an Institutional Core?
- Provide highly-specialized services that require sophisticated technical skills and equipment, too expensive for individual laboratories or departments to support.
- Provide strategic scientific impact to the BCH research community.
- In collaboration with Central Sr. Leadership, are responsible for planning, implementation, ongoing management, and monitoring of these cores.
- Have a broad, Institution-wide user base from multiple disciplines, departments, and programs.
- Provide unique services, not widely available from outside sources, including from commercial vendors.
- Comply with Federal, Sponsor and Institutional regulations including annual reviews and audits.
- Have strategic and operational approved business plan, which includes a long-term financial sustainability plan.
- Have a professional management structure with dedicated scientific staff
What are the criteria to become an Institutional Core?
- Provide highly-specialized services that require sophisticated technical skills and equipment, too expensive for individual laboratories or departments to support.
- Provide strategic scientific impact to the BCH research community.
- Have a broad, Institution-wide user base from multiple disciplines, departments, and programs.
- Provide unique services, not widely available from outside sources, including from commercial vendors.
For more information, contact:
Aron Post
Director, Research Administration
ResearchCoreResources-ECRAC@childrens.harvard.edu