Interface with the Clinical Core Laboratory

The Ponce School of Medicine has an RCMI-funded Core Laboratory of over 2,000 sq. ft under the direction of Dr. Yasuhiro Yamamura that will integrate as a unit of the PRCTRC-CL (PRCTRC-CL-PSM). There are multiple collaborations between investigators at the UPR Medical Science Campus and the PSM that are ongoing. For example, there are collaborations in which investigators at the UPR-MSC are sending samples to the facilities of the Ponce School of Medicine (PSM) laboratory for clinical analysis. In addition to HIV, HCV and HPV molecular and cellular diagnostics, the PRCTRC-CL-PSM will have available real time RT-PCR and micro arrays chemiluminescence’s detection systems for protein arrays services. These will be available to other clinical and translational science researchers of the PRCTRC-CL.