Core Facilities/Service Centers

To add other core facilities or service centers, please contact Karen Zhu-Raymond at karen.zhu@tufts.edu.

Medford/Somerville Campus

Facilities Purpose Major Instruments/Services
Greenhouse Plant Growth N/A
Tissue Engineering Research Center (TERC) Functional tissue engineering Scaffold, bioreactor, and culture design to control stem cell differentiation and complex tissue engineering
Tufts Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Center Promote and facilitate GIS, remote sensing, cartography, and geographic research and analysis GIS Instruction & Assistance, Application Development, Database Design, Data Acquisition, Geocoding, Geoprocessing, and Spatial Analysis
Tufts Micro/Nano-Fab (TMNF) Research and Teaching in MEMS and Micro/Nano-scale Devices including Bio-MEMS NUV Contact Lithography, Wet Chemistry, DC Sputter Deposition, Plasma Etching, Packaging, and Metrology

UIT Academic Technology


UIT Academic Technology enables the university and its diverse academic communities to realize their vast potential in teaching, learning, and research through the innovative design and meaningful integration of technology to meet broad and local goals.


Research Technology Infrastructure – high performance computing; research storage; software licensing.

Research Technology Tools – tools for visualization; tools for bioinformatics; tools for collaboration.

Research Consulting Services – statistical consulting; technology consultation and planning; monitoring, design, implementation, and application of emerging technologies for research applications.