Services

Research Development:

• Consultation on research protocol development and regulatory affairs
  • Training on discarded tissue research and HIPAA patient privacy regulations

Collection:

• The Biorepository team works directly with internal clinicians to obtain biospecimens and data from adult patients
  • Healthy controls and disease biospecimens
    • Saliva, oral rinse, oral swabs, blood, primary tumor tissue, discarded tissue, paraffin blocks
  • Matched adjacent tissues from same source
  • Additional samples obtained from same source during possible follow-up standard of care visits
• Strict patient confidentiality regulations maintained with use of unique database identification codes
• Clinical data obtained through medical record reviews
  • Pathology reports, histopathological status, demographics
  • Additional data able to be obtained through Data Use Agreements

Preparations:

• Biospecimens processed may be processed according to investigator request
  • Fresh, frozen, embedded, sections, slides
  • Dissection
  • RNA preservation

Biospecimen Samples:

• Available storage of human body fluids, blood, and tissues for future research use
  • Long-term maintenance of materials for designated researchers

Clinical Data:

• Secure, custom-designed archival database