The Bio-Analytical Redox Biology (BARB) Core provides state-of-the-art services in mitochondrial metabolism, oxidative stress, psychological and physiological stress assessment research in diabetes, obesity, exercise, pediatric neonatology, cancer, aging, optometry, microbiology, neurobiology, nutrition, pain, psychology, urology, and cardiometabolic disease research on a fee-for-service basis. The BARB Core has provided services to over 350 UAB and external principal investigators (PIs) since its inception in 2008 and provides a combination of services not available through any other UAB cores or regional universities. The BARB Core serves as a hub to facilitate and promote the development of multi-disciplinary research projects among independently funded research programs at UAB, nationally and worldwide.
The BARB Core is a Diabetes Research Center Metabolic and Redox Sub Core (NIDDK P30DK079626) as well as a UAB Institutional Research Pilot Core. We are also supported by several UAB Centers: Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NIDDK P30DK056336), Center for Clinical and Translational Science (NIH UL1TR003096), Center for Free Radical Biology and UAB Center for Exercise Medicine.
