Created as part of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, the Immune Monitoring & Cancer Omics Laboratory (IMCO) provides seamless support and comprehensive analytics for clinical and translational studies. The primary objective of the IMCO platform is to offer clients a broad suite of state-of-the-art research and CLIA assays that generate high-quality data to inform and improve novel standards for patient care.

We provide an end-to-end process that includes sample acquisition, preparation, assay execution, and data generation. All of our offerings—including research assays—are performed using rigorously standardized procedures and are internally validated to ensure accuracy, reproducibility, and consistency.

 

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The IMCO comprehensively characterizes immune responses to determine mechanisms of resistance and develop biomarkers to predict therapeutic outcomes or toxicities. Our program is designed is to work closely with individual partners to deliver the services needed for each specific study.

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The Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University is a pioneer in the field of precision cancer medicine. The institute's director, Brian Druker, M.D., helped prove it was possible to shut down just the cells that enable cancer to grow. This breakthrough has made once-fatal forms of the disease manageable and transformed how cancer is treated. The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center between Sacramento and Seattle – an honor earned only by the nation's top cancer centers. It is headquarters for one of the National Cancer Institute's largest research collaboratives, SWOG, in addition to offering the latest treatments and technologies as well as hundreds of research studies and clinical trials.

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