Bioassay Facility Core
Provides the technology and expertise to advance environmental studies across the UCSF research community

The Bioassay Facility Core offers advanced tools for measuring chemical exposures and assessing health impacts, supporting researchers from experiment design through data interpretation. Our cutting-edge methods enable rapid testing for under-resourced areas like reproductive health, early development, and neurodevelopment, while our educational programs help investigators master these techniques.

highthroughput lab
High-Throughput Chemical Screening

Enables in vivo chemical testing in model organisms or a tissue culture model

Jennifer Fung, PhD

environmental chemical laboratory
Environmental Chemistry Laboratory

Measures chemical levels in biological samples (i.e., biomonitoring) and environmental media, including water and dust

June-Soo Park, PhD

Proteomics

Provides global mass spectrometry (MS)-based, protein-level data from in vitro, animal, and human studies

Susan Fisher, PhD