Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology (CBIO)/Lurie Family Imaging Center (LFIC)

Overview of Services

The Lurie Family Imaging Center (LFIC) is the preclinical arm of the Center for Biomedical Imaging in Oncology (CBIO), a 14,000 square feet preclinical experimental therapeutic facility that features advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, and optical imaging scanners as well as a radiochemistry laboratory.

 The facility enables Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to incorporate advanced bio-imaging endpoints into their preclinical studies to study in vivo cancer biology, novel drug efficacy, and to develop pharmacodynamic biomarker strategies.

Information for Users External to DFCI

Purchase Orders are to be made out to:

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

General Accounting, BP-430

450 Brookline Avenue

Boston, MA 02215-5450

Note to Partners, Harvard, Boston Children’s and Tufts researchers etc:

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – supplier 54532
• Boston Children’s Hospital – use vendor 0000001886; choose address 69
• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital – use supplier 0000000963
• City of Hope – use vendor 0000002690
• Columbia University – use vendor 0000001028
• Harvard (includes HMS, Dental, Wyss, HSPH, Harvard U – main campus):  choose vendor site: 01_PRIMARY
• MD Anderson:  choose vendor code 6423
• Northwestern University – use vendor code 0000017860
• Partners Health Care (now known as Mass General/Brigham) (includes MGH, BWH, McLean, Spaulding, etc): choose vendor 0000008573
• Tufts University:  choose Supplier 0000000655

 If you are using a PO from an institution other than one under which you signed in, you must stop and contact the LFIC Program Coordinator at debbie_taylor-nicoleau@dfci.harvard.edu

Leadership

Prafulla Gokhale, Ph.D. - Director, Lurie Family Imaging Center

Administrative Contacts

Debbie Taylor-Nicoleau, Program Coordinator, Lurie Family Imaging Center

Location and Hours of Operation

Links and Resources

ARF: https://arf.dana-farber.org/

Facility Images

PET Chamber

 Facility Hallway 

Contacts