MICHR Physical Resources

MICHR FACILITIES: The following physical space is available within the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR):

Centralized Operations at Domino's Farms Office Complex: Located approximately four miles from the University of Michigan Medical Campus, MICHR currently occupies approximately 10,000 square feet of office space at Domino's Farms Office Park, with an adjacent Clinical Research Unit satellite outpatient "pod" of approximately 4000 square feet. Current space contains offices and small and large conference rooms that can also serve as instructional space for clinical research education. These facilities have helped to create a strong trans-institutional home for clinical and translational research.

MCRU Distributed Research Performance Sites: The Michigan Clinical Research Unit (MCRU) is currently located in four discrete areas. The main performance site is on level 1 in the UMHS Cardiovascular Center (CVC). The Domino's Farms extension contiguous with MICHR are both located approximately four miles from the hospital in northeast Ann Arbor. The Burlington Office Building extension is on East Eisenhower near Briarwood Mall. The Rachel Upjohn Building extension is on the East Ann Arbor Medical Center Campus.

The new MCRU facility in the CVC is comprised of approximately 7,400 square feet of space, which includes research-only outpatient exam rooms, research-only overnight stay beds in private rooms, and administrative offices. It also includes a research exercise physiology area, a procedure room, a nursing workspace, a medical preparation and storage room, a patient/subject intake area, equipment storage space, clean and soiled holing rooms, a principal investigator and study coordinator workroom, a staff locker room, a metabolic kitchen, a specimen processing laboratory, a patient waiting area and a dining area for participants.

The Outpatient Clinical Research Unit at Domino's Farms currently houses 10 exam rooms, including a research physiology room. All aspects of the unit are JCAHO compliant. Shared space includes a waiting room, patient carrels, patient intake area, equipment room, a double secure-locked documentation room, audit/exam room, patient food preparation room, staff kitchen, patient shower, and handicap accessible bathrooms. A 140 square-foot wet laboratory is contiguous with the patient facility. It contains two table top centrifuges, one computer with internet connection allowing follow up on patient laboratory values, one label printer for blood draws, supplies for drawing blood and for preparing aliquots for storage. The laboratory also contains a small specimen refrigerator, two -86° specimen freezers, and one -20° specimen freezer.

Five additional research-only dental suites have been added by the Dental School, as part of their partnership with MICHR.

The Minority Health Research Program MCRU clinic is located at the Ypsilanti Health Center (YHC), a satellite health center of UM Hospital and Health Centers. Two departments comprise the YHC- the Department of Family Medicine and Department of Pediatrics. Space dedicated to the GCRC- 430 square feet- includes two exam rooms, a small laboratory, a nurse's office, and lobby space used for check-in and check-out and for displaying educational materials.

The Human Applications Laboratory (HAL) occupies approximately 1500 square feet of laboratory space on the seventh floor of the University of Michigan Hospital. The HAL is maintained and managed by a dedicated staff, receives leadership through a HAL Director and is regularly audited by the University of Michigan Health System Corporate Quality Improvement Good Tissue Manufacturing and Laboratory Practices Coordinator. The HAL is physically divided into three distinct areas; an administrative records management office, a class 10,000 clean room, and a room for flow cytometry characterization of cellular products. Access to all three areas is strictly controlled and monitored.