Clinical and Translational Research Centers (CTRC)

Supports research visits in dedicated inpatient and outpatient research facilities as well as limited mobile services to conduct research visits within the University of Colorado Hospital.

Facilities and Services

• Core Laboratory
• Nutrition Services
• Nursing Services
• Whole room Calorimeter
• Sleep laboratory
• Metabolic and exercise testing facilities including RMR and vO2max
• Exam rooms
• Echocardiogram & Vascular Imaging
• Chemotherapy Infusion Center
• Dual-energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA)

Outpatient Adult CTRC located on the 6th floor of the Anschutz Health Sciences Building (AHSB)

Anschutz Health Sciences Building (AHSB)
1890 N. Revere Ct., Room 6030 (6th floor)
Campus Box B141
Aurora, CO 80045

The west entrance of AHSB will be open for public access.

Standard Operating Hours & Upcoming Closures

Adult OP CTRC Visit Status Dashboard

Supports research visits in inpatient and outpatient research facilities within Children's Hospital Colorado.

Facilities and Services

• Children’s Hospital Colorado CTRC Core Lab
• Nutrition Services
• Nursing Services
• Infusion Center
• Exam rooms
• Procedure room
• Body composition measurement via DEXA, BOD POD, and PEA POD
• Metabolic and exercise testing including RMR and vO2max
• Bronchoscopy
• Cardiac monitoring equipment
• Echocardiogram & vascular imaging

Learn More About CHCO CTRC Services & Epic Use Plan Guidance

Standard Operating Hours & Upcoming Closures

The National Jewish Health CTRC includes an Outpatient Clinic, expert research Nursing Services and a Core Laboratory offering a menu of specialized assays. In addition, the CTRC provides specialized research services such as regulatory support and ECG testing.

All services are provided as fee-for-service resources.

Facilities & Services

• NJH CTRC Inflammation & Immunology Core Lab
• Nursing Services
• Exam rooms
• Procedure room
• Interview room
• ECG machines
• ​Allergy skin prick testing
• Skin biopsies
• Physical exams
• Spirometry
• Phlebotomy
• Skin epithelial barrier measurements
• Interviews for structured questionnaires
• Skin microbiome collections
• Medication administration (topical, oral, IV)
• Sweat chloride testing

National Jewish Health CTRC Inflammation & Immunology Core Lab

Our focus is specialized immunologic assays relevant to immunity and inflammation and not clinical diagnostic assays. We have access to coordinate with the National Jewish Health clinical immunology labs with in-house pricing, providing investigators access to unique immunology and inflammation assays.

All services are provided as fee-for-service resources.

Procedures

• Immunofluorescent Cell Staining (PBMCs, lymphocytes, RBCs, BAL and induced sputum)
• Flow Cytometry Analysis (Cell Quest Pro and Flowjo)
• Lymphocyte Proliferation Assays (including responses to beryllium and various steroids)
• Proliferation Assays using cancer cell lines to determine the effectiveness of drug therapy
• Cell Culturing +/- various stimulation
• DNA extraction from whole blood and various tissues and skin swabs
• Cell isolations (PBMC, BAL, sputum, CD4+ selection)
• RNA extraction from whole blood and various tissues
• ELISA
• Isolation and storage of serum, plasma, PBMCs, BAL, and sputum; cryopreserve and snap freeze cells; prepare slides and perform differential cell counts; prepare and store urine samples; extract and store/assay supernatants from cell culture; extract buffy coat for storage or DNA extraction; prepare lung biopsies for analysis; prepare lung brushings for analysis; prepare and store whole blood; perform colony forming assays on cell lines; develop new assays as needed.

The University of Colorado Boulder CTRC includes an outpatient clinic located on the CU Boulder campus with access to expert nursing and nutrition services, and an Integrative Physiology Laboratory.

Boulder CTRC

All services are provided as fee-for-service resources.

Facilities and Services

• Nutrition Services
• Nursing Services
• Exercise physiology testing
• Exam and protocol rooms
• Faraday room
• Metabolic (RMR) carts (PARVO/VMAX)
• Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA)
• Sleep laboratory
• Cardiac monitoring equipment ECG machines GE Vivid 7 ultrasound machine

University of Colorado Boulder CTRC - Integrative Physiology Lab

Investigation Support Areas

1. Autonomic nervous system/cardiovascular physiology
2. Body composition
3. Exercise testing and intervention
4. Indirect calorimetry

Procedures

• Venous occlusion plethysmography
• Microneurography
• Ultrasound measurements
• Graded exercise testing
• Resting metabolic rate
• Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry

For additional questions, please contact the Boulder CTRC