Clinical and Translational Research Center

The Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) is the academic home of clinical and translational research in Buffalo. Opened in the summer of 2012, the building places clinical and translational researchers in adjacent space. The CTRC, owned and operated by the UB, occupies floors five through eight atop the Gates Vascular Institute, a clinical facility owned and operated by the Kaleida Health System. The Clinical and Translational Research Center is a 170,000 sq. ft. research center, with open architecture, state-of-the-art laboratories and support space for more than 40 principal investigators with translational research programs and seminar rooms and educational facilities with modern audiovisual infrastructure. The building meets or exceeds all local, state and federal codes and laws for both building safety and life safety and has a 2-megawatt emergency generator.

• Administrative offices and core functions of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute inclusive of the Clinical and Translational Science Award and the university-wide Clinical Research Office.

• Clinical Research Center (CRC), a fully equipped outpatient suite which includes seven examination rooms for investigators and staff who conduct clinical studies. Services offered by highly trained and certified personnel within the CRC include: assessment of vital signs; electrocardiogram; phlebotomy services, including pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic sampling; local laboratory processing of biological samples for results and laboratory processing for central lab shipment; intravenous line placement and maintenance; urine collection and urine pregnancy testing; investigational drug administration and post administration monitoring; investigational drug storage and accountability; participant interviews and administration of study questionnaires; basic nutritional services; short-term storage of frozen specimens in preparation for shipment to a central laboratory facility, and pharmacy.

• Open architecture laboratories, shared equipment, and support spaces, inclusive of but not limited to, centrifuges, cell culture facilities, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, spectrophotometers, and real-time PCR, with an approved rate agreement in place.

• An AAALAC-certified 20,000 sq. ft. animal research facility for small and large animals, including a transgenic mouse facility.

• A biorepository and specimen processing laboratory that opened in 2018 with the capability for storing two million samples with associated informatics.

• An imaging facility devoted exclusively to research, that includes a Philips MR 7700 3 Tesla MRI scanner (humans and large animals), and a Bruker 9.4 Tesla Microspec MRI scanner (small animals).