Welcome to the UM-HOC!
What is the UM-HOC?
We are a collaborative laboratory with the goal of enabling the University of Michigan research community to implement a diverse range of Patient Derived Organoids for discovery-based research, personalized and regenerative medicine. We also welcome external institutional collaboration and commercial partnership in furtherance of our research aims.
What we do.
Provide expertise, guidance and training to enable your research involving human organoid systems.
Provide consulting services to aid in experimental planning
Implement the latest strategies, and develop new methods, to culture and establish organoids from primary human tissue.
Develop a repository of in vitro grown primary human tissues that are accessible to the research community.
Provide access to detailed protocols.
Provide access to well characterized cell/tissue lines.
Provide access to specialized, quality controlled and batch-tested reagents.
Provide help obtaining preliminary data and letters of support for grant submissions
Support
The UM-HOC is a Michigan Medicine initiative that is partially supported by various stakeholders, including the Office of the Dean, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Pathology, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Internal Medicine, the Endowment for Basic Sciences and the University of Michigan Center for Gastrointestinal Research.
Collaborations and Publications
Since 2017, the UM-HOC (formerly TTML) has assisted numerous collaborators in the scientific community to publish cutting edge human organoid research.
Contact Us
Need help with your next experiment? Have a question about our services? Send us a message here, and we will get back to you shortly!