What is the TTML?

We are a collaborative laboratory with the goal of enabling the University of Michigan research community to implement a diverse range of in vitro grown primary human tissues 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 primary human tissue systems.

• Provide consulting services to aid in experimental planning

• Implement the latest strategies, and develop new methods, to culture and establish 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.  (See products & services)

• Provide help obtaining preliminary data and letters of support for grant submissions

Support

The TTML 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.