Overview of Services

The Immune Monitoring Core provides a broad range of assays to evaluate the cellular immune response to support clinical trials and preclinical studies.  Services available include Multiplex/Luminex cytokine analysis, ELISPOT and FLUOROSPOT (2-5 color).  The Core staff has extensive experience in assay development and optimization.  We can provide technical consultation and support to assist with assay design, the selection of reagents and data analysis. 

For studies involving immune assays, the Immune Monitoring Services (IMS) staff receive scheduled fresh or frozen specimen from the Central Processing Services staff and perform high-quality immune analysis, including ELISPOT, FLUOROSPOT, multiplex cytokine assays and data analysis according to study requirements. The IMS supports clinical trials and preclinical research with real-time immune analysis of specimens.

Immune monitoring services/assays are unique to a particular clinical trial.  They may include standard assays the core provides as a service (ELISpot/Luminex/ELISA) or assays that are unique to a specific clinical trial (custom SOPs or operational documents will be generated when needed and can include techniques or isolations/manipulations that the core does not typically provide as independent services).

Leadership

M.Victor Lemas, Ph.D. |  Faculty Director

Christopher Thoburn | Operations Director / Core Manager

Location and hours of operation

Acknowledgement Policy

This Core is supported through the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center National Cancer Institute P30 CA006973 Center Grant. 

Cancer Center members should reference CCSG funding (NCI CCSG P30 CA006973) on all cancer center publications where SKCCC Core services are used. 

Acknowledgement of the core facility in all publications which utilized the service of the core is customary and appreciated, as it is used as a metric in determining future funding.

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