Core Description

The Brody School of Medicine’s Mass Spectrometry Core Facilities embraces a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to providing research faculty, staff and students advanced mass spectrometry services and technologies. Housed in the Brody School of Medicine and under the purview of the Departments of Research and Graduate Studies and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, BSOM’s Mass Spectrometry Core provides numerous levels of service to the scientific community.

BSOM’s Mass Spectrometry Core is currently active in myriad of clinical and foundational science research projects. These projects include quantitative and qualitative -omics type studies — e.g. proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics– identification and quantification of posttranslational protein modifications, and integrative protein structure and dynamics analysis.

Services offered by BSOM’s Mass Spectrometry Core include the following:

Experimental design consultation

Method development and optimization

Sample preparation and sample analysis

Data reporting and interpretation

BSOM’s Mass Spectrometry Core Facilities are well-equipped to perform sample preparation, advanced mass spectrometry experiments, and data analysis. Staffed with dedicated, full-time personnel, our overarching goal is to provide high quality, rigorous, reproducible, and cost-effective resources in mass spectrometry.  