Roman Reed Core Laboratory

The Roman Reed Core Laboratory provides a means for investigators who are new to the field of SCI research to launch novel research projects and obtain training in SCI research techniques. The main purpose of the Core Laboratory is to support experiments by scientists with novel ideals, but who are not yet directly engaged in spinal cord injury research in their own labs.The Core Laboratory collaborates in the design and execution of spinal cord injury studies in rodents, performs the unique functional analyses that are critical for SCI research, and carries out anatomical and other analyses. These studies are most often undertaken in the Roman Reed Laboratory at UCI, but the Core Laboratory can also provide a traveling team to help investigators at other California institutions set up spinal cord injury experiments. The Core Laboratory also provides intensive training to visiting scientists.

The Core Laboratory collaborates in the design and execution of spinal cord injury studies in rodents, performs the unique functional analyses that are critical for SCI research, and carries out anatomical and other analyses. These studies are most often undertaken in the Roman Reed Laboratory at UCI, but the Core Laboratory can also provide a traveling team to help investigators at other California institutions set up spinal cord injury experiments. The Core Laboratory also provides intensive training to visiting scientists.

The Roman Reed Core Laboratory is supported by California's Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund, and was dedicated on March 1, 2002 in a ceremony that was read into the United States Congressional Record.

To learn more about how to use the Roman Reed Core, please contact Maura Hofstadter, mhofstad@uci.edu, 949-824-3993.