Major Interdisciplinary Programs: Core Units & Resources

• SC Cancer Center
  • Histology Core Facility (PDF)
  • Flow Cytometry Core Facility (PDF)
  • Microarray Core Facility (PDF)
  • Tissue Bank (PDF)
     
• South Carolina Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN)
  BRIN is a network of 23 SC institutions with bachelor degree programs in chemistry and biology working together to enhance biomedical research and educational programs in the state. Funded by the National Center for Research Resources, BRIN is designed to increase the state’s NIH research capacity by giving all faculty and students in science programs the opportunities to promote their research and move forward on discoveries through collaboration and contacts within the state’s network of higher learning institutions. USC, MUSC, and Clemson University are all considered mentoring institutions for other colleges in the network.
   
• Community Intervention Research
  The USC Prevention Research Center (PRC) is funded as part of the Prevention Research Centers Program of the CDC. PRC’s theme is “Promoting Health through Physical Activity,” and its mission is to conduct research that benefits the public’s health and translates that research into practice.
  
  PRC’s community intervention research promotes physical activity through environmental and policy supports. For example, PRC has encouraged Sumter County’s adult residents to form a community coalition to which the PRC now offers technical assistance, training, and other resources. The community’s heightened awareness and advocacy has also led to more sidewalk construction, enhanced share-the-road projects, created mall walking and Adopt-a-Park programs, distributed 24,000 maps identifying walking routes, and established a worksite wellness policy by one of the county’s largest employers.
   
• Center for Colon Cancer Research
   
• Biodefense and Biopreparedness
   
• Research Consortium on Children and Families
   
• Institute for Families in Society
   
• Cell, Molecular, and Biomedical
   
• Rural Health Research Center
   
• South Carolina Nutrition Research Center
   
• Bioinformatics
   
• USC Nanocenter
   
• Institutes, Centers and Laboratories
   
• Healthy Aging Research Consortium