Research Partners
The CBI works with centers and institutes across Pitt, UPMC and beyond — sharing expertise, infrastructure and data.

Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research
An NIDDK-funded national resource center (U54 DK137329) for kidney cell biology, physiology and pathobiology — its KIDNIT imaging core, co-directed by CBI's Simon Watkins, develops novel imaging tools built on CBI facilities.
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An NIH-NIDDK P30-funded Digestive Diseases Research Core Center (P30 DK120531) supporting hepatic injury and repair research through pilot funding, scientific core facilities and community enrichment.
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An NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center — the only one in western Pennsylvania — where more than 300 researchers advance basic, translational, clinical and population science research.
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Brain Image Library
The Brain Image Library is a BRAIN Initiative data archive of high-resolution microscopy - petabytes of open data across organisms, techniques, and scales, free for researchers everywhere.
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