Core Research Equipment Facility

Kean’s Core Research Equipment Facility (CREF) is a shared-service core research facility that provides specialized instrumentation and analytical services through its Research Institutes and Centers to support researchers in the conduct of their basic and translational research.

Office of Science and Technology

About Us

CREF is available to Kean University faculty, NJ State University faculty, and other outside users.

Fees for service are calculated to cover maintenance, consumables, equipment time, and salary costs, and quotes are available from individual programs or resources upon request.

CREF is a participating core facility in the NJ Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) Catalyst R&D Voucher Program. The program provides vouchers of up to $40,000 to eligible New Jersey companies to help offset the cost of leveraging R&D resources, facilities, and equipment at the state’s academic universities and colleges, federal and non-profit laboratories to advance their technology development.

Kean Student utilizes sophisticated scientific equipment to conduct an experiment

Our Equipment Facilities

The CREF is centrally managed with equipment located in research clusters throughout the University, and include a Core Analytical Chemistry Facility, Core Biology Facility, and a Core Computational Science Facility. These facilities are well-equipped and managed and scheduled with the Agilent web-based, enterprise-wide iLab core facilities Management Software.

Core Analytical Facility

Advion TLC/CMS and UPLC/CMS instrument for walk-up support of medicinal chemistry
Sciex Zeno TOF 7600 high-resolution instrument for proteomics and small molecule research
Waters Xevo G3 QTOF instrument for metabolomic studies
Thermo Fisher Trace 1310 Gas Chromatograph with ISQ LT single quadrupole mass spectrometer
Advanced fluorescent scanning UV/Vis/NIR and FTIR spectrophotometers
JEOL 500 MHz NMR for chemical determination of molecular identity and structure

Core Biology Facility

Leica STELLARIS 5 Confocal Microscope
Illumina next generation MiniSeq DNA Sequencer
Oxford next generation Nanopore DNA and RNA sequencer
Data analysis workstations with software to analyze sequencing and microscopic data, centralized data storage and mining
ThermoFisher Quant Studio 7 Flex real-time PCR system supporting a broad range of genomic applications
ThermoFisher KingFisher Flex automated extraction instrument for high-throughput extraction and purification of DNA, RNA, proteins, and cells
Tecan Spark Multimode Microplate Reader for ELISAs, DNA/RNA and protein quantification, fluorescence absorbance and bioluminescence assays, and cell-based studies
Anaerobe Systems Anaerobe Chamber for cultivation of anaerobic microorganisms

Core Computational Facility

High-Performance Computer with a 9 node (20 A30 GPU, 76080 GPU cores, 4480 TPU cores) system with 1.5 PB of storage and 1152 CPU
MechDyne Computer Assisted Virtual Reality Environment (C.A.V.E.) using high performance computing, mathematics and computer graphics to visualize and communicate complex concepts in science, art, design and engineering.

Our Mission

Our mission is to support teaching and multidisciplinary collaborative research at Kean University, with Institutions of Higher Education, and the broader New Jersey regional research ecosystem.

We aim to foster academic-industrial research partnerships and collaborative research programs and work to support the regional Life Science and Tech industries, from start-ups to established companies, in partnership with the New Jersey’s Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.

We are also committed to training the next-generation of scientific leaders through collaborative workforce development programs with regional community colleges and our K-12 community.