Lerner Research Institute Outcomes

Lerner Research Institute’s Shared Laboratory Resources facilitate and advance Cleveland Clinic research by providing low-cost technologies that support basic, translational and clinical research.

Some highlights from 2023 include:

• Shared Laboratory Resources directors were listed as coauthors on 65 publications. Six of these publications listed two or more collaborating Shared Laboratory Resources directors.
• Shared Laboratory Resources received over $5.7 million for work supporting Cleveland Clinic researchers' externally funded projects and $7.2 million for internally funded projects.
• The Center for Therapeutics Discovery synthesized more than 700 novel compounds to support tool compound generation and preclinical candidate selection for in-house collaborations and discovery therapeutics.
• The Engineering Design Core designed and built 101 anatomy models and performed 517 3D print jobs.
• The Polymer Core worked on 20 novel medical device innovation projects.
• The Cell Culture Core tested 228 samples for mycoplasma and provided 107 cryovials to Lerner Research Institute researchers.
• The Glassware Core washed 151,397 pieces of glassware and 135,025 pipettes.  
• The Microbial Sequencing and Analytics Resource Facility processed more than 2,700 samples for nucleic acid extraction and microbiome sequencing.
• The Computing Services Core completed 9,323 support requests, with nearly 80% resolved within one week.
• The Proteomics & Metabolomics Core provided approximately 350 reports on the analysis of 5,800 samples.