Utility Links
Core Services
- Biomedical Research Core Facilities (BRCF)
Includes links for services such as DNA sequencing, flow cytometry, and transgenic mice.
- M-Cores
M-Cores is a web-based, searchable repository of laboratories that offer UM analytical services.
Funding
- Funding
This webpage lists various ways to search for funding and recognition opportunities, including a link to M-Quest (a database of opportunities for grants, honors, prizes and fellowships created and maintained by the Office of Research) as well as information on email alert groups, internal grant programs, upcoming limited submissions, and links to extramural funding search engines.
Grants Office
- Medical School Grant Review and Analysis Office
Office receives any proposals that involve Medical School faculty or space for compliance review with school, university, and sponsor guidelines - whether primarily held in the Medical School or outside campus units.
Research
Animal Research:
- Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM)
Provide animal care and health services as well as procurement and research services. Also provide training courses and workshops in animal use protocols.
- University Committee on Use and Care of Animals (UCUCA)
The Office reviews animal use applications and protocol modifications, conducts inspections, and provides training for people working with animals.
Human Research:
- Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR)
(formerly the Center for the Advancement of Clinical Research (CACR))
Provide support and services for all stages of clinical and/or translational research.
- Michigan Clinical Research Unit (MCRU)
(formerly the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC))
Provide the clinical research infrastructure to investigators who receive their primary research funding from other components of the NIH. The unit also serves as an institutional resource for investigators to perform pilot studies that may result in further agency funding.
- Institutional Review Boards of the University of Michigan Medical School (IRBMED)
Provide oversight of human subjects research conducted by medical school faculty, students, and staff at any University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) facility or site.
- eResearch
eResearch is the web-based system that centralizes the review and approval process for human subjects research applications.
- engage
engage is the online gateway to clinical research throughout the University of Michigan. engage provides "one-stop shopping" for people who want to help medicine move forward by participating in clinical research at UM.
- Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR)
Staff provides statistical services to faculty, primary researchers, graduate students and staff of the University such as study design, dataset consultation and interpretation of results.
