The Hankenson laboratory is part of the
Orthopaedic Research Laboratories (ORL), a faculty consortium in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery focused on diseases of the skeleton. The ORL hosts the University of Michigan NIAMS P30 Core Center (The Michigan Integrative Musculoskeletal Health Core (
MiMHC) and the ORL faculty share 10,000 square feet of laboratory space in the Biomedical Sciences Research Building. The ORL is fully-equipped for cellular and molecular, histological, compositional, and mechanical evaluation of musculoskeletal tissues and cells.