Facilities

Tissue Culture Facilities

The department has two shared, state-of-the-art tissue culture rooms, each equipped with two biosafety cabinets, and numerous cell-culture incubators. These facilities are shared among multiple laboratories. In addition, several laboratories have their own tissue culture facilities for dedicated tissue-engineering applications.

Microscope Facilities

The department has a Nikon epifluorescence microscope equipped with a CCD camera for digital imaging. This unit is a core facility, available to departmental members at large. In addition, the department has an Olympus Fluoview 300, laser-scanning confocal microscope that is shared among several departmental laboratories that competed successfully for an NIH shared instrumentation grant. The confocal microscope is equipped for simultaneous electrophysiological/patch-clamp recording, and has custom lasers permitting CFP/YFP FRET imaging.

BME Mechanical Instrument Shop

The BME Mechanical Instrument Shop is available to all School of Medicine Principal Investigators and their associates.

Our Specialty

• Design assistance
• Precision custom fabrication for any and all research/clinical projects and devices

We have an extensive inventory and are capable of working with any material you may require. We also have excellent sources for special components and supplies, CNC machining and sheet metal forming/fabrications.

Please feel free to contact us for more information:
Contact: Jay O. Burns
Phone: 955-3444
Fax: 410-614-9890

Whitaker Institute Lithography and Fabrication Facility

Supported by the Whitaker Foundation, the lithography and fabrication facility in Clark Hall is established as a multidisciplinary focus point at the Homewood campus to facilitate research and education for undergraduate and graduate students in the area of microfabrication and system integration. Activities in the laboratory emphasize the use of modern lithography and fabrication technologies as tools for biological research in neuroscience, tissue engineering and molecular dynamics as well as in medical applications for novel therapeutics, artificial tissues, drug and gene delivery and MEMS microsensors.

The facility includes a 1300 square feet of class 1000 cleanroom space to carry fabrication processes such as photolithography, thin film deposition, oxidation, and surface and bulk etching. The laboratory is operated as a shared facility and it is staffed by a full-time lab manager, Mr. Huy Vo huyvo@bme.jhu.edu who is responsible for its maintenance, student training and safety. Prof. Andreou is the current director of the facility.