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(hide this warning on this page)The Radioimmunoassay and Biomarkers Core offers a large number of high quality immunoassay, metabolite, and HPLC services to basic, translational, and clinical investigators performing diabetes and related metabolic disease research. The RIA/Biomarkers Core is housed within in a new state of the art-laboratory within the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism (IDOM) located on the 12th floor of the Smilow Center for Translational Research. Approximately 100 different diabetes, obesity and metabolism-related biomarkers from multiple species including human can be assayed using radioimmunoassay (RIA), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA, both absorbance and fluorometric), multiplex ELISA on the Luminex platform, and enzymatic methods for an expanding variety of diabetes and metabolism related metabolites, hormones and cytokines derived from blood, urine, and tissue samples.
Our RRID is RRID:SCR_022405. Please cite us using this identifier when publishing your results.
| Name | Title | Phone | |
| Michael R. Rickels, MD, MTr | Director | rickels@pennmedicine.upenn.edu | |
| Heather W. Collins, PhD | Technical Director | 215-898-4368 | hwc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu |
| Hours | Location |
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Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM |
3400 Civic Center Blvd., Bldg 12-183 Smilow Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
| Name | Role | Phone | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather Collins |
Technical Director
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215-898-4368
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hwc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
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12-183 Smilow
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