Human Immunologic Monitoring Facility

Phone: 773-702-4812

University of Chicago
Abbott Hall
Lab: Room 514
Office: Room 510
947 E. 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

The HIM Facility, directed by Dr. Thomas Gajewski, provides laboratory support to UCCCC investigators who conduct novel immunotherapy clinical trials. The services include standardized, state-of-the-art immune monitoring assays to measure immunologic endpoints and biologic effects of pharmacologic agents using lymphocytes as a surrogate tissue, as well as the newly established multidimensional biobanking protocols for fresh patient tumor biopsies, PBMCs, serum, and stool to study tumor gene expression and mutations, germline polymorphisms, systemic metabolomics, and gut microbiota. In addition, the HIM Facility has developed multiplex immunofluorescence staining panels to visualize and quantify various immune cell subsets within the tumor. The HIM Facility also provides services including sample management, reporting, shipping, protocol development, and manuscript preparation. The core may be identified in publications as The University of Chicago Human Immunological Monitoring Core (RRID:SCR_017916).