Clinical and Translational Research Center

A 170,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art academic health center which opened in 2012, the CTRC provides a centralized facility for the institute, including administrative offices, translational research laboratories, a clinical research center, an advanced imaging center, a lab animal facility and a biorepository. 

The University at Buffalo and Kaleida Health partnered to build the facility that houses the CTRC (which occupies floors 5 through 8) and the Gates Vascular Institute (floors 1 through 4).

This state-of-the-art center places clinicians adjacent to clinical and translational researchers and is one of only a handful of such buildings in the nation.

• The administrative offices and core functions of the CTRC
  • CTRC Administrative Offices
  • Research Navigation System
• University-wide Clinical Research Office (CRO)
• Clinical Research Center (CRC), which provides comprehensive support to investigators in performing clinical research, including:
  • Nine examination rooms for human subjects
  • Support space for blood drawing and specimen collection
  • Laboratory for sample processing
  • Certified research pharmacy

• Open architecture laboratories and support space for more than 40 principal investigators with translational research programs
• An active biorepository and specimen processing laboratory with associated informatics
• An imaging facility devoted exclusively to research
  • 3 Tesla MRI imager for human subjects
  • 9.4 Tesla Micro MRI
  • PET-CT scanner for human subjects
• The biorepository program is designed to advance discovery and innovation in healthcare by providing a unique, centralized resource of high-quality, deeply annotated biospecimens to support present and future research studies, diagnostic development, and the creation of new therapeutics