MIDAS strengthens University of Michigan’s preeminence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and enables their transformative use in a wide range of research disciplines to achieve lasting societal impa

The Biosciences Initiative focuses on funding cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, expert faculty hires, collaboration, and postgraduate education across the biological sciences at U-M.

The Biointerfaces Institute aims to provide an open, inclusive and supportive environment for our community of learners, researchers, faculty and staff.

The University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine seeks to: Promote and develop cross-disciplinary collaborations on RNA across campus and provide a central organizational structure to help recruit and develop common resources, including collaborative research grants and shared equipment, as well as domestic and international researchers.

The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center seeks to reduce cancer burden and improve cancer outcomes through research, innovation and transdisciplinary collaboration

Explore the many services, equipment, and instrumentation that the University of Michigan offers across campus in its core facilities.

Resources

University of Michigan Biosciences Initiative
The Biosciences Initiative focuses on funding cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, expert faculty hires, collaboration, and postgraduate education across the biological sciences at U-M.

 

Biointerfaces Institute
The Biointerfaces Institute aims to provide an open, inclusive and supportive environment for our community of learners, researchers, faculty and staff.

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)
MIDAS strengthens University of Michigan’s preeminence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and enables their transformative use in a wide range of research disciplines to achieve lasting societal impact

The Advanced Genomics Core
The mission is to facilitate research in cutting-edge fields of genetics and genomics by implementing complex technologies. We provide centralized expertise in advanced methods that enables all researchers to effectively exploit them for making scientific discoveries.

Rogel Cancer Center
The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center seeks to reduce cancer burden and improve cancer outcomes through research, innovation and transdisciplinary collaboration.

Center for RNA Biomedicine
The University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine brings together RNA scientists whose passion and research are at the frontier of RNA discoveries. With over 160 faculty and their affiliated labs across seven Schools and Colleges of the University of Michigan (U-M), the Center for RNA Biomedicine is one of the leading RNA research communities in the world.

The Bioinformatics Core
helps researchers identify and interpret patterns in RNA and DNA by placing sequencing data into a biologically meaningful context. This encompasses assisting with experimental design, developing reproducible workflows, analyzing next-generation sequencing data, and supporting manuscript development/publication.

Technologies

Spatial Transcriptomics

10X GENOMICS VISIUM
Visium Gene Expression system offers tools that enable a person to do whole transcriptome analysis on a tissue section. There are a variety of ways you can opt to use the platform and work with the Advanced Genomics Core.

 

NANOSTRING GEOMX DSP
NanoString’s GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP) combines spatial and molecular profiling technologies by generating digital whole transcriptome or protein expression data for up to 4 tissue slides per day.