Labs and Facilities
The centre is organized in seven multi-disciplinary laboratories:
- Integrated Technologies for Health (IT4H)
- Health Systems and Processing management
- Technology evaluation and Characterization
- Modeling of physiological systems
- Clinical study design and management
- Smart-Health
- Biophysics and System Physiology (B&SP)
- Cell culture
- Microfabrication
- Electron Microscopy (SEM, AFM)
- Confocal Microscopy
The main equipment and tools of the laboratories are:
- Full featured cell culture lab (laminar flow Hood, incubators, Liquid Nitrogen storage for cells, mini incubator for cell culture, 37°C bath, Ultrafreezer -80)
- Chemical hoods
- Atomic Force Microscopy (NT-MDT – Solver pro)
- Field Emission- Scanning Electron Microscope (Zeiss – SUPRA-40 )
- Confocal Microscopy (Nikon – A1)
- Optical inverted microscope (Zeiss – AXIOVERT 25)
- Optical microscope (Zeiss – AXIOTECH HAL 100)
- Citofluorimeter (BD – Facscalibur)
- Electrophoresis/Wenstern Blot
- Freeze Dryer (Cinquepasacal – Lio-5P)
- Centrifuge (Hermle – Z326)
- Centrifuge (SIGMA – 2-16 and SIGMA – 2-5)
- Light scattering (Wyatt Technologies – Dawn EOS)
- GPC ( HPLC pump P4000 – SpectraSystem - Jasco UV/VIS detector UV-1570)
- Real time PCR (Biorad – C1000/CFX96)
- Spectrophotometer and spectrofluorimeter (Biorad Smartscope 3000, Thermo Laborsystem Multiscan EX, Nanodrop ND-1000)
- Multimode microplate reader (SPARK 10M – TECAM
- Non-linear optical microscope (Prairie – Ultima )
- Collaborative robot (U3R – Universal Robots)
- Supercritical CO2 reactors – Assembled
- Ultrasonic processor (Hielscher – UP400)
- Autoclave (Steristeam 2 – NewMed )
- Spin Coater (SPIN 150 – APT)
- 3D Printers (Ultimaker2 and A4 – Bologna 3d )
- Microfabrication machine - homebrew bioprinter
- Bioreactors for dynamic cell growth (homemade)
- Reomether (Discovery HR-2 – TA Instruments)
- Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry (Q20 – TA Intruments)
- Dynamic Mechanical Analysis for small samples (dry and wet conditions) – (ElectroForce 3200 – BOSE)
- Electrospinning (homemade)
- RF Plasma Reactor (Gambetti – Colibrì)
- Atomflow atmospheric plasma torch (Surfxtechnologies – Atomflo 100)
- Whilelmy microbalance (Cahn – DCA300 Dynamic Contact Angle Analyzer)
- Sessile drop static contact angle (homemade)
- Histology laboratory