Biobanking
The Biobanking Center of Excellence at TechTown is creating a global hub in Detroit for tissue-based biomedical research. This Center of Excellence helps Michigan compete in the world market for life science research by providing a core resource that new and existing biotechnology companies can use to help establish and grow their businesses. A fully functioning lab will soon be available to researchers who want to carry out experiments using the samples and data stored at the Center of Excellence.
iBridge Biobanking Forum
Join TechTown on the iBridge biobanking online forum, where you can find the latest on early stage inventions and share ideas, research and knowledge. The iBridge Network is a vibrant online community providing a public, centralized source for unbiased information about early stage technologies and inventions. It seeks to drive transparency and access to university developed innovations that are available today as well as to field experts, ideas and information. Through the iBridge Network, researchers and those seeking innovations can easily search for and obtain the resources they need.
Asterand is the leading global supplier of high-quality, well-characterized human tissue and human tissue-based research services to drug discovery scientists. Our mission is to provide human tissues and services to accelerate the identification and validation of drug targets and enhance the selection of drug candidates with an increased likelihood of clinical success.
This repository of dried blood samples provides valuable research material for examining the origins, prevention and cures for diseases of public health concern. The University Research Corridor, the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Van Andel Institute all have partnered on this ambitious 44-year public health research project.
The biorepository occupies about 4,800 square feet in TechTown's business incubator and employs 14 part-time students who are cataloging the samples.
Tom Henderson of Crain's Detroit News reports on the Michigan Neonatal BioTrust at TechTown. Read the article here.
Tom Henderson also did a spotlight on WDET's Detroit Today program on April 6, which you can download here.
The Henry Ford Health System is one of the nation’s leading health care providers, offering an array of acute, primary, tertiary, quaternary and preventive care backed by excellence in research and education. The Cytogenetics, DNA, Drug Discovery and AXT labs are located in TechOne.
National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, Perinatology Research Branch
The Perinatology Research Branch is a division of the National Institutes of Health that conducts research on conditions responsible for perinatal morbidity and mortality with a focus on premature labor, intrauterine growth retardation, congenital anomalies and pre-eclampsia.