Institutional Resources

The Young lab has access to the Vanderbilt Mass Spectrometry Research Center, which offers an array of GC-MS and LC-MS instruments that are made available to researchers on a fee-for-service basis. Several other research core facilities are available throughout the Vanderbilt University Medical Center for performing various genetic, biochemical and imaging analyses. Prof. Young is a member of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center, which involves approximately 100 participating faculty and numerous shared resources. Most notably, the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center is one of only 7 such centers that have been established by the NIH as a resource to scientists who use mice to study diabetes, obesity, diabetic complications and other metabolic diseases.