ORION Core Facility
Cara Haymaker, Ph.D.
Director
Overview
The ORION (Oncology Research and Immuno-mONitoring) core provides state-of-the-art immunoprofiling services including clinical trial immune monitoring, data analysis and technical consultation for assay design, as well as single service instrument use. Learn more about ORION.
Getting Started
Please access iLab in order to reserve instrument time and for Luminex, MSD, and ELISPOT full service assay setup: ORION Core iLab
Please see Accessing ORION Core in iLab document if you need to register for an iLab account and to assist with submitting assay requests.
For clinical trial immunoprofiling please contact Dr. Haymaker for consultation and setup.
ORION works with various biobanks across MD Anderson, including the Institutional Tissue Bank (ITB) to receive fresh tissue from clinical trials.
Impact
The ORION core aims to contribute to the scientific community in the fields of translational research and clinical trial immune-profiling. Through the use of advanced immune-centric technologies such as multiplex cytokine profiling and high dimensional flow cytometry, ORION has supported 26 clinical trial related projects including NCI and CPRIT funded studies and trials, investigator-initiated trials, and strategic alliance sponsored trials. In addition, ORION core services have expanded to include tumor tissue specific processing for single-cell transcriptomic profiling and exosome characterization with validation of multiplex fixed tissue profiling underway.
Acknowledgment
Please use the following text when acknowledging the core: "The ORION core was supported in part by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and P30CA016672."
Go to the Acknowledgment page to see guidelines on whether the efforts of core personnel merit authorship.
Contact
Phone: 713-563-1955
Email: ORIONCore@mdanderson.org
Facility location:
MD Anderson Cancer Center
ORION Core Lab
Room 2SCR2.3219
7455 Fannin St., Houston, TX, 77054
Service hours:
Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
New 2023 Pricing
New ORION core pricing will go into effect in iLab October 15th, 2023.