The Laboratory Core Services division at the SNPRC is a group of three primary laboratories dedicated to the support of research in immunology, genomics and research imaging.

Integrative Biology Core


The Integrative Biology Core (IBC) supports nonhuman primate research for investigators nationwide by providing the following services.

  • Laboratory support
  • Luminex technology
  • Serological surveillance
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Research Imaging


The Research Imaging Core Laboratory (RICL) supports researchers in the development of in-vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission technology (PET) technologies, and applications of these technologies in immunology, infectious disease, cardiology, and neuroscience research.

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Pathology


The Pathology Laboratory at the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) at Texas Biomedical Research Institute offers anatomic and clinical pathology services to research scientists, investigators, veterinarians, and physicians at Texas Biomed and other research facilities.

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SNPRC has an extensive environmental enrichment program, in which all of our animals participate. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for the monkeys and apes housed in our facilities to express species-typical behaviors that are found normally in primates living in the wild.