VANTAGE: Vanderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics

VANTAGE is a genomics core laboratory consolidation initiated by an $8.6 million ARRA funded NIH grant award to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with an overall goal of creating a new collaborative shared resource that accelerates discovery in genome sciences and personalized medicine, providing state-of-the art research shared resource facilities and technology.

The NIH grant provided funds for complete modernization of 12,505 Net Square Feet of aging laboratory space in Medical Center North, and for new cutting edge scientific equipment now utilized by the core labs located in the newly renovated space. Renovation was completed in May 2012, and the core labs (see below) are now in full service mode in their new laboratories.

The next phase of consolidation is now underway, with the operational merger of the DNA Resources and Genome Sciences Resource cores. All of the services currently offered by these cores will continue, including: Illumina genotyping, DNA extraction and banking, Affymetrix–based genotyping and expression microarrays, Sanger sequencing and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) among many other specialized services. In the reorganization, these activities will now become part of an overall structure that takes full advantage of their new physical co-location together with the Flow Cytometry Shared Resource in VANTAGE.

Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization toured VANTAGE as part of DNA Day celebration: Watch the video.

Scientific Director:  James Crowe, MD
E-Mail: james.crowe@Vanderbilt.Edu

Associate Director, Genomics:  Jeffrey Smith, MD, PhD
E-Mail: jeffrey.smith@Vanderbilt.Edu

Technical Director, Sequencing: Travis Clark, PhD
E-Mail: travis.a.clark@Vanderbilt.Edu
Phone: 615-936-3003

Technical Director, High-Throughput Genotyping and Expression Services: Holli Dilks, PhD
E-Mail: holli.h.dilks@Vanderbilt.Edu
Phone: 615-343-2607

Manager, Biobanking Services and Low-Throughput Genotyping: Cara Sutcliffe, MS
E-Mail: cara.b.sutcliffe@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: (615) 936-2744

Manager, Scientific Information: Dan Dorset, MS
E-Mail: daniel.dorset@Vanderbilt.Edu
Phone: (615) 936-3001