Connections and Affiliations

The Flow Cytometry Core Facility, directed by Dr. Rafi Ahmed with Robert Karaffa as Technical Director, provides cell sorting, analysis, training and consultation services. Relevant components of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility are located in various laboratories throughout the campus. Analyzer cytometers in its inventory include the LSRII, FACSort and FACscan (Becton Dickinson). Each analyzer is equipped to detect multiple fluorescent parameters and two scatter parameters. Sorting is provided on a FACSVantageSE (Becton Dickinson) and MoFlo (Dako-Cytomation). Both sorters are equipped with multiple lasers and can detect up to 8 fluorescent parameters and two scatter parameters. In addition, both sorters are equipped with single-cell deposition hardware/software for cloning/hybridoma experiments. All instruments are controlled by Macintosh or Windows-based computers.

The Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide administrative and shared facilities support for HIV/AIDS research at Emory. There are 19 other NIH-funded CFARs around the country. Components of the Emory CFAR include the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University School of Medicine, the Emory National Primate Research Center, the Emory Vaccine Research Center, and Emory College.

The Emory CFAR currently provides services for over 120 faculty who engage in more than $44 million dollars of funded HIV/AIDS research annually in the areas of prevention science, vaccine development, AIDS pathogenesis, and clinical science. CFAR services are provided through six CFAR Cores: Administrative, Developmental, Behavioral & Social Sciences, Clinical Research, Immunology, and Virology/Pharmacology. Information about each these Cores may be found by clicking the title link.

Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance.

The Atlanta VA Medical Center has a highly active, major research program that is affiliated with Emory University, and is one of the largest in the nation. The program is fortunate to include a national VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center, which focuses on the impact of low vision on the aging veteran; an HIV Research Center; a satellite GRECC which collaborates with the Birmingham VAMC and programs which comprise activities related to medical and clinical problems, rehabilitation medical engineering, and health services research. The research program involves over 300 projects conducted by over 100 principal investigators and total grant funding of more than 18 million dollars from VA and non-VA sources. Most of this research is performed in a new state-of-the-art facility with 59,000 square feet that offers core areas. The program also has collaborative and research training programs with Morehouse School of Medicine, Spellman College and Clark Atlanta University.

CDC seeks to accomplish its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and world to monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments, and provide leadership and training.

CDC has developed and sustained many vital partnerships with public and private entities that improve service to the American people. Although CDC's national headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia, more than 2,000 CDC employees work at other locations, including 47 state health departments. Approximately 120 are assigned overseas in 45 countries.

The Emory Vaccine Center represents the largest and most comprehensive academic vaccine center in the world and is renowned for its expertise in cellular immunity and immune memory. This expertise leads to the creation of new technologies for the prevention of emerging infectious diseases. Established in 1996 with support from Emory University and the Georgia Research Alliance, the Emory Vaccine Center has 17 faculty who study AIDS, malaria, and other global infectious disease threats.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology.

Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education.

The Institute offers many nationally recognized, top-ranked programs. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in the Colleges of Architecture, Engineering, Sciences, Computing, Management, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Georgia Tech consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report's top ten public universities in the United States. In a world that increasingly turns to technology for solutions, Georgia Tech is using innovative teaching and advanced research to define the technological university of the 21st century.

Founded in 1990, the Georgia Research Alliance represents a partnership between the state¹s research universities, the business community, and the state government. Its mission is to foster economic development within Georgia by developing and leveraging the research capabilities of the research universities within the State and to assist and develop scientific and technology-based industry, commerce and business. One of the three research areas funded by the GRA is biotechnology, including microbial pathogenesis and vaccine development. This commitment to Georgia¹s future has been made possible through a public-private partnership in which private donations are being matched by state funding. In fact, the $276 million in state funding invested through the GRA in the past ten years has attracted nearly triple that amount in additional federal and private dollars, and research relationships between GRA universities and industry have increased 800 percent.

Georgia State University, founded in 1913, has a mission of excellence in teaching, research and service. Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, this major research university has an enrollment of more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students in six colleges. Georgia State is the second largest university in the state, with students coming from every county in Georgia, every state in the nation and from over 145 countries.

As a research university, Georgia State encourages the pursuit of knowledge and innovation in a number of fields.

At the Emory Department of Pediatrics we are committed to giving children like Noah a bright future. We provide the highest quality state-of-the-art clinical care. What makes us different, however, is that we are also committed to improving how we care for children through scientific research as well as training the next generation of leaders in pediatrics. We are Georgia's largest multidisciplinary practice serving children not only through the Emory Children's Center, but also through Emory's alliances with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory Hillandale Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown .

The Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense (SERCEB) is a consortium of academic institutions in the southeast comprised of member schools, Duke University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Emory University, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Southern Research Institute, Vanderbilt University, and University of Florida-G The mission of SERCEB is to perform the basic and translational research that will lead to the development of the drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that are needed to protect society from emerging infections and biologic threats. The specific scientific aims of the program are:

• Development of novel, safe and effective vaccines for category and other select agent and emerging infectious agents and toxins
• Development of novel, safe and effective drugs for select agent and emerging infection.
• To develop antibody based diagnostic tests for select agents in patients and in the environment.

The Southeastern Center for Emerging Biological Threats (SECEBT) is designed as a partnership to combat biologic agents with increasing potential for harm. The war against dangerous biologic agents is fought with knowledge, research and communication.

The Center addresses biologic threat agents by consolidating resources in basic research; vaccine development; pathogen surveillance; biomedical engineering; pharmacology; veterinary medicine; food safety; clinical recognition and treatment; and communication and training of scientists and health professionals.

The Winship Cancer Institute is comprised of six shared facilities providing high technology services which are open to clinicians and researchers throughout the Emory system. These shared facilities make possible for an entire campus that would be too costly or time consuming for any one department or hospital.

The research conducted at the Cancer Institute facilities includes basic, translational and clinical research projects. Research programs which fall under the auspices of the Cancer Institute include Cancer Prevention, Oncology Clinical Research, Pediatric Oncology, Molecular Therapy, Immunology, and Cancer Genetics.

Membership of the Winship Cancer Institute is comprised of over 200 Emory School of Medicine faculty members from a cross-section of disciplines.

The Emory National Primate Research Center is a multi-disciplinary research institute within Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Long recognized as one of the leading centers for biomedical and behavioral research with non-human primates, the center is focused on the following goals:

• To conduct a research program focused on scientific problems relevant to human health and the mission of the National Institutes of Health.
• To provide the resource infrastructure and expertise in appropriate scientific and veterinary specialties to support the research program.
• To serve as a resource for scientists from around the world.