As merengue music echoed from the ice cream truck parked underneath the bridge connecting the east and west sides of Silverman Hall, visitors streamed into the twelfth annual CLP Core Crawl. Hot pizza, beer and frozen treats awaited nearly 200 Northwestern students, staff and investigators who came to learn more about CLP’s core facilities for biomedical discovery.
CLP-affiliated core facilities participated in the Core Crawl, including the Developmental Therapeutics Core (DTC), High Throughput Analysis Lab (NU-HTA), Proteomics Core, Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI), Quantitative Bio-element Imaging Center (QBIC), Biological Imaging Facility (BIF), as well as the Structural Biology Facility (SBF), and the Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center (IMSERC), which host instruments in Silverman Hall.
Representatives from Promega, Millipore Sigma, PerkinElmer and Thermo Scientific, were also on hand giving out swag, showing their products, and answering questions.
The Chemistry of Life Processes Institute is headquartered in the 147,000 SF Richard and Barbara Silverman Hall for Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnostics, which was designed for CLP as hub for interdisciplinary collaboration. CLP pushes the boundaries of science and technology to bring life-saving drugs and diagnostics to people faster. Prowess in the development of molecular therapeutics, diagnostics and technologies for biomedical discovery is the Institute’s hallmark. CLP’s in-house experts collaborate with researchers across Northwestern applying sophisticated methods and a deep bench of tools and instruments for preclinical development. More than 500 Northwestern researchers have benefitted from CLP’s drug discovery and translation facilities.
by Lisa La Vallee
