The mission of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center Flow Lab is to maintain a cutting-edge facility that provides researchers the technical and educational support for fluorescence-based single cell analysis and isolation to further the characterization and understanding of cellular function, biomarkers, pathology, and treatment in basic, translational, and clinical research projects.

The Flow Lab was established in 1988 as a resource for the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The facility maintains two laboratories: the main facility located in the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR) a full service satellite facility in the UW Biotechnology Center.