Penn Center for AIDS Research

Immunology Core Services

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The Immunology Core provides a wide range of services and reagents to benefit the immunological research of the Penn CFAR Community. Services are provided by facilities in both the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute and are housed at several sites. Services include:

• Primary Cell Purification (Riley Lab, BRB II/III 5^th Floor)
  • Freshly isolated primary PBMCs, CD4, CD8, T cells, NK, monocytes and B cells
  • CCR5 deficient T cells and monocytes from Δ32 donors
• Standard Immunological Assays (12^th Floor Abramson Research Center, CHOP)
  • Cell Based Assays
  • Flow Based Assays and Services
• Reagents in Human T cell Phenotyping (Betts Lab, 5^th Floor Johnson)
• Custom labeling of antibodies for multi-parametric flow cytometry
• GLP-Like Assay Development (Boyer Lab, 7^th Floor Stellar Chance)
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Intracellular Cytokine Staining
  • Proliferation Assay
  • CFSE dilution
  • ELISPOT
  • Sample acquisition and storage
• BSL-3 Cell Sorting Facility