Shared Resources

The Core Facilities of Penn's Abramson Cancer Center (ACC), also called Shared Resources, provide investigators with easy access to state-of-the-art research technology, equipment, technical support, data and biostatistics services that would be too difficult or expensive for individual investigators or programs to develop and maintain. The availability of the ACC Core Facilities significantly facilitates the ease with which cancer-related research can be conducted at Penn. Thirteen of the current Shared Resources are approved by the NCI and supported by the Cancer Center Support Grant, awarded to the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Biomedical Data Coordination Core
• Biostatistics Unit
• Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility
• Clinical Imaging Core
• Clinical Research Unit
• DNA Sequencing Facility
• Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Facility
• Genomics Facility
• Histology Service Core
• Human Immunology Core
• Proteomics Core
• Recruitment, Outcomes, and Assessment Resource (ROAR)
• Small Animal Imaging Core
• Stem Cell and Xenograft Core
• Transgenic and Chimeric Mouse Facility
• Tumor Tissue Bank (sub-core of ROAR)