The shared interdepartmental facilities at Partners bring state-of-the-art instrumentation, methodologies and expertise crucial to the promotion of research at Partners. The Partners cores not only provide high quality, cutting edge research services by our in-house experts but also constitute a major educational resource for our growing research enterprise.

The development of shared resources is part of our commitment to interdisciplinary research and will be an important part of our future endeavors. Cores make it possible to share our wealth of expertise, facilities and equipment with the research community, allow for more efficient use of resources, promote collaboration among investigators and further enhance the competitiveness of Partners investigators to secure research funding.