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Cardiometabolic and Imaging Core

A major goal of the Cardiometabolic and Imaging Phenotyping Core is to provide expertise, state-of-the-art equipment, and resources for assessment of cardiovascular, renal and metabolic phenotypes in rodents. Another goal is to provide high resolution imaging technologies, training and consultation, data analysis, image processing, and centralized technical expertise to support imaging needs.

Specific aims of this core are:

• To provide services that foster cutting-edge cardiorenal and metabolic research of the highest quality.
• To provide a centrally located, well-equipped and state-of-the art Cardiometabolic Phenotyping and Imaging Core that provides support and training for all aspects of phenotypical measurements, image and morphometric analyses.
• To provide new-cutting-edge technologies that can be used by investigators to implement novel approaches to cardiorenal and metabolic disease research.
• To provide maintenance and supervision of key equipment and provide training, technical support, and supervision for all investigators, staff and students in the proper utilization of core equipment.

Acknowledgement of Core Services:

This Core serves an invaluable resource for many users at UMMC and is supported by multiple NIH funded programs as well as the Department of Physiology & Biophysics. Your use of this core is greatly appreciated and we hope to continue to provide these services to support your research program. Sustainability of these core services is a major goal of the Physiology Department.

 As a user of these core services, you are expected to acknowledge the proper funding source that provides support for your use of this core. For every publication, press release or other document regarding above mentioned use of these core services, the appropriate NIH award, Cardiorenal and Metabolic Diseases Research Center P30GM149404 should be cited and acknowledged within PubMed Central (PMC).  Appropriate acknowledgement can be reported as follows: "Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30GM149404. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health."

However, if a manuscript includes one or more co-authors whose listed affiliation is with a foreign institution, and the publication acknowledges support from the NIH IDeA Program, including the COBRE award,investigators should contact the COBRE Administrative Core before manuscript submission. NIH has recently emphasized that publications acknowledging IDeA funding and including authors affiliated with foreign institutions may require prior review and approval by NIGMS, even when the research activities were conducted entirely in the United States. The COBRE Administrative Core will help determine whether additional documentation or consultation with NIGMS is needed before the manuscript is submitted or the award is cited.

Contact us

Dr. Jussara do Carmo, Leader of the Cardiometabolic Phenotyping Sub-Core facility
Phone: (601)-984-4353
Email: jdocarmo@umc.edu

Dr. Heather Drummond, Leader of the Imaging Sub-Core facility.
Phone: (601)-984-1812
Email: hdrummond@umc.edu

Ms. Xuemei Dai, Laboratory Manager
G253, Guyton Research Center
Phone: (601)-984-1829
Email: xdai2@umc.edu

External collaboration

We welcome collaboration with external users. Contact us by phone or email.