Equipment + Capabilities

 

The Freedman Lab, a component of the Musculoskeletal Translation Innovation Initiative (MTII) at BIDMC, has a primary focus on pioneering innovative solutions to address unmet clinical needs within the musculoskeletal (MSK) domain. Our capabilities encompass a range of disciplines including bioimaging, animal models of disease and injury, biomechanics, biomaterials, drug delivery, biology, trauma, sports medicine, pediatric and aging MSK needs, as well as upper and lower extremity ailments.

Areas of Expertise

  • Mechanical testing support (tensile, compression, shear, nanoindentation, DMA, fatigue)
  • Biomaterial synthesis and purification
  • Animal models (mouse/rat surgical and functional evaluation)
  • Soft tissue testing and characterization
  • Drug delivery
  • Tissue culture

Our Equipment

  • Rheometer (TA Waters Discovery HR-10)
    • 8mm & 40mm Sand Blasted Parallel Peltier Plates
    • 20mm 2 deg Peltier Cone
  • Nanoindenter (KLA iNano)
  • Bose (Electroforce 3230-AT)
  • Cell Scale (UniVert)
    • 10N & 100N Load Cell
  • Instron 5944
    • 2kN Load Cell
  • Instron 8511
  • Instron 8874
  • Cryostat (Leica CM3050 S)
  • Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) (Repligen KrosFlo KR2i)
  • SpeedMixer (FlackTek DAC 330-100 PRO)
    • for mixing & grinding
  • Lyophilizer (SP Scientific BenchTop Pro)
  • Inverted Benchtop Microscope (EVOS M5000)