Clinical Trials Support Office

The Clinical Trials Support Office (CTSO) is the central hub for the trans-departmental Clinical Trials Support Units (CTSUs), providing enterprise-wide leadership, standards, policies, and a common infrastructure.  

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Michigan Medicine Site Profile

View the Michigan Medicine Clinical Research Site Profile for an overview of the resources we offer to support clinical research.

How We Serve Your Research Needs

Our goal is easier and more timely navigation through the clinical research administrative process at Michigan Medicine.

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Clinical Trials Support Units (CTSUs)

Clinical Trials Support Units (CTSUs) are business units that partner with investigators and their teams to ensure the timely and efficient activation and execution of clinical trials at Michigan Medicine.

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Study Coordinator Support

Principal Investigators can ultimately find a smoother process and save time by taking advantage of our study coordinator pool, which can provide investigators with team members who are already on staff and fully trained.

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Michigan Clinical Research Unit (MCRU)

The Michigan Clinical Research Unit (MCRU) provides clinical staff, resources, and infrastructure that are necessary to conduct adult and pediatric human clinical research protocols at the University of Michigan.

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Training, Education, and Resources

The Clinical Trials Support Office provides a structured and formalized path for developing faculty and study teams early in their career or new to clinical trial research.

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At Michigan Medicine, “Our discoveries change care. Our care changes lives.” Nothing is more central to that institutional vision than the ability of our dedicated faculty, staff, and team members – among the most exceptional anywhere – to conduct innovative, safe, ground-breaking, and practice-changing clinical research.

The Clinical Trials Support Office, Support Units, and MCRU exist to further these goals. Our programs aim to advance prospects for success wherever centralized support can circumvent the necessity to “reinvent the wheel” – staff are required to build an effective and experienced team of coordinators; administrative expertise can help to ensure the highest levels of rigor, safety, fiscal responsibility, and regulatory compliance; training can enhance prospects in multiple fields of investigation; and career development can open new opportunities for junior research faculty.

If you aim to start, maintain, or grow clinical or translational research at Michigan Medicine, try us. We are here to help you achieve your vision.

Ron Chervin, M.D., M.S.
Assistant Dean for Clinical Research
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CTSO FY24 At A Glance
1,545
Studies
500
Principal Investigators
27,880
Study Subjects
Clinical Trials at Michigan Medicine
Contact Us
Clinical Trials Support Office
Medical School Office of Research
M-CTSU: North Campus Research Complex, Building 520
O-CTSU: North Campus Research Complex, Building 300
2800 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
About Us

The Clinical Trials Support Office is a unit of the Medical School Office of Research, where our mission is to foster an environment of innovation and efficiency that serves the Michigan Medicine research community and supports biomedical science from insight to impact.

Upcoming Research Events All Office of Research Events
BD Biosciences Flow Cytometry Workshop
Enjoy a free lunch when you join the BRCF Flow Cytometry Core to explore BD Biosciences cytometers, reagents, single-cellmultiomics solutions, and instrument demos of the new BD FACSDiscover S8 Cell Sorter. Plus, BD Biosciences will be in the Flow Cytometry Core at BSRB, helping with problems and questions.
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Reporting AEs, ORIOs, and Unanticipated Problems
This course will identify what constitutes an Adverse Event, ORIO, and Unanticipated Problem and how such events impact risk to subjects. Additionally, the course will review the requirements of reporting such events to the IRB and other entities.
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Dealing with Flow Data: What to do after the run
Help yourself to a cookie and learn from Core Director Dave Adams how to work with your BRCF Flow Cytometry data.
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10X Genomics & Oxford Nanopore Technologies Seminar
Explore the full diversity of biology with single-cell and spatial genomics with the BRCF Advanced Genomics Core, 10X Genomics, and Nanopore Technologies. Coffee and pastries will be provided.
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Amendments and Continuing Reviews
This course is a follow-up to Initial Project Applications and will examine the process for submitting amendments and scheduled continuing reviews to IRBMED using eResearch once a project’s initial application has been approved.
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Next-Generation Sequencing-based Proteomics with Illumina
Join the BRCF Advanced Genomics Core and Illumina for a seminar to learn how Illumina Protein Prep, by combining the power of high-plexity, high-sensitivity SOMAmer® technology with Illumina's high-throughput Next-Generation Sequencing platforms, enables researchers to analyze thousands of samples for more than 10,000 protein targets.
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DRAGEN and Partek Flow Softwares for Multiomics Analysis
Join the BRCF Advanced Genomics Core and Illumina to learn how DRAGEN V 4.0, secondary analysis software, and Partek Flow, a bioinformatics platform, can enhance your research.
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Bioinformatics Town Hall at THSL
Share your bioinformatics needs with the Office of Research and the Biomedical Research Core Facilities (BRCF).
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Data and Safety Monitoring Boards and Data Safety Monitoring Plans
This course will review when studies are required to have a DSMP or DSMB and how to develop an appropriate DSMP. A DSMB is an independent group that advises the study team regarding subject safety, study conduct, and efficacy. The DSMB will also make recommendations concerning the continuation, modification, or termination of the trial. A DSMP outlines how subject safety and data integrity will be maintained to ensure the validity of collected data.
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Featured Research News All Office of Research News " "
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BRCF Memorial Day 2025 Holiday Closures
Several Cores that are part of the Biomedical Research Core Facilities (BRCF) will be closed or have adjusted hours for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.
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FluoroFinder: A Free Tool to Design Panels
Anyone with a umich.edu or med.umich.edu email can now use the FluoroFinder Academic Plus License offered by the BRCF Flow Cytometry Core. Researchers outside this domain should contact Core Director Dave Adams. The license provides access to an online panel-building tool with various reagent catalogs, AI panel design tools, reagent inventory, and a library of flow training materials and workshops. Learn more and how to get started.
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New Large Team Grant Resources for the UMMS Research Community
Large Team Grants (LTGs) are complex, multi-disciplinary proposals that consist of multiple projects and cores. To assist Medical School faculty and support staff who are developing and submitting large-scale proposals, the LTG Core in Grant Services & Analysis (GS&A) recently launched a Large Team Grant Resources SharePoint site.