Facilities

The Friedman Laboratory in the 12 year-old Icahn Medical Institute Building at Mount Sinai is 1700 square feet.  This space consists of:

• an open-design
• 1100 square foot general area with 10 working benches, fume hood, and storage
• two dedicated 300 square foot tissue culture rooms, with culture hoods, incubators, and a perfusion area for primary liver cell isolation
• shared access on the floor to an autoclave and dishwashing room
• 4o C and -20 o C walk-in cold rooms and darkroom
• two seminar rooms
• two dedicated –80o C freezers are available to the laboratory 
• two liquid nitrogen tanks for human liver and mRNA storage, with a duplicate liver tissue bank inventory in each tank
• a dedicated Nikon Microphot microscope
• two inverted microscopes for tissue and cell culture analysis are on-site

Additional key equipment includes:

• a dedicated Roche Light Cycler 480 for real time PCR
• a QiaCube automatic sample prep machine

Each student/postdoc/technician bench is equipped with a full range of micropipetters, and a dedicated microcentrifuge and immunoblot apparatus.