Clinical Translation Medicine

The Center for Translational Medicine provides the infrastructure, expertise and resources necessary to translate innovative drugs and biological reagents into Phase 1 clinical trials and facilitate the development of new therapies for patient treatment. 

For more information on CTM, go to https://translational-medicine.umn.edu/ or contact rschumac@umn.edu.

The Clinical Pharmacology shared resource at the Masonic Cancer Center provides pharmacology services and expertise for funded cancer-related projects of Masonic Cancer Center members. Investigators are encouraged to contact the Clinical Pharmacology shared resource early in the planning stages of the project to assess feasibility and determine study design. 

For more information on services and fees, go to https://cancer.umn.edu/clinical-pharmacology or contact Jim Fisher at fishe101@umn.edu

The Advanced Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (ARDL) is a Central Biochemistry Laboratory that is fully accredited by CLIA, CAP, and the New York State Department of Health. 

For more information about ARDL and its unique assets, please go to https://med.umn.edu/pathology/research/ardl or contact Bharat Thyagarajan at thya0003@umn.edu.

The Cytokine Reference Laboratory is a CLIA-88 licensed facility specializing in the analysis of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors and other soluble mediators from a variety of biological sources from humans and animal species.

For a full list of equipment and services please go to https://cytokinelab.umn.edu/. To request a quote please go to https://umn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_aV7vx4QTBtWChOB or contact Mike Ehrhardt.

The TTL is the central laboratory that provides MCC investigators with sample processing, immune monitoring, biorepository management; and receives and processes patient blood samples from clinical trials.