The Auditory & Vestibular Technology (AVT) Core was established to provide infrastructure to support Research Project Leaders and principle investigators associated with the Dr. Richard J. Bellucci Translational Hearing Center to conduct auditory and vestibular research across the full range of experimental model systems, from single molecule analysis to whole organism models. We also offer access to our services and instruments to outside users.

We provide instruments for performing widefield light microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, and confocal microscopy. We also offer software for analyzing imaging data.

We provide services for genomics research that range from sequencing to data analysis. Instruments available through our facility include an Illumina NextSeq 2000, 10x Genomics Chromium iX Controller, Agilent TapeStation 4200, and Qubit Flex Fluorometer.

Histology Services including tissue processing, embedding, sectioning, and H&E staining.

The Drug Design, Synthesis, and Validation Subcore, located in room 326B Criss II at Creighton University, offers a team of multidisciplinary experts and cutting-edge technologies to provide a comprehensive suite of services tailored to your drug development needs. Our experts can assist you with drug screening and design approaches from small molecules to peptides. Once the design phase is complete, we are able to develop and apply innovative methodologies to synthesize your drug candidate, and validate its chemical structure and purity. We also offer services to detect and quantify drugs in biological samples to help understand how well the drug is delivered to the desired target and its metabolism.
Follow-up studies can be conducted using the services of the ADMETox subcore to characterize the drug candidate’s toxicity, efficacy, and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic profiles, and assist in developing appropriate formulation and delivery approaches.

Collection of Henry Lynch cancer samples; biobanking services, genomics services also offered