Biorepositories
Biospecimen Repositories are critical to PIs interested in conducting clinical research. The following centers/core facilities maintain biorepositories and may be open to collaboration (some restrictions may apply).
If you maintain a biorepository at UNC and would like to be included on this list please e-mail ORT at corefacilities@med.unc.edu with your information.
| Facility Name and Website | Contact | Contact E-mail |
| Biospecimen Processing Facility | Dr. Patricia Basta (Director) | patricia_basta@unc.edu |
| The BSP facility provides laboratory support for investigator-initiated large-scale clinical, epidemiologic, and other studies and functions as a human biospecimen repository. It also serves as a resource for clinicians who wish to store and study samples from unusual or potentially important patients. | ||
| Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology | Dr. Neil Alexis | neil_alexis@med.unc.edu |
| The CEMALB biorepository is a QAIQC resource for the storage, disbursement, and curation of human biospecimens. Our facility supports CEMALB investigators, UNC collaborators, industry sponsors, and external investigators. We currently house over 750,000 biospecimens and have the capacity to meet future storage needs. | ||
| Marsico Lung Institute Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core | Leslie Fulcher (Lab Manager) | leslie_fulcher@med.unc.edu |
| The MLI TPC serves as a central source of normal, CF and disease control cells, tissues and fluids for a wide array of uses | ||
| LCCC Tissue Procurement Facility | Ryan Robinson (Interim Director) | ryan_robinson@med.unc.edu |
| Procurement of fresh, frozen tissue in OCT or RNALater, formalin-fixed paraffin embedded malignant and non-malignant tissue, blood and other (urine, toenails, etc.) specimen processing and storage, clinical trial support, nucleic acid isolation | ||
| LCCC Tissue Culture Facility | Amy Patrylick (Manager) | amypat@email.unc.edu |
| Centralized cell repository with over 400 cell lines available, as well as various computerized catalogues (American Type Culture Collection, NIGMS Human Genetic Mutant Cell Repository). Cell lines include normal and transformed mammalian, avian, insect, amphibian/reptile, and hybridoma cells. | ||
| UNC Kidney Center Biorepository (Glomerular Disease Collaborative Network) |
Caroline Poulton (Director of Research Operations) | caroline_poulton@unc.edu |
| Procurement of fresh, frozen tissue in OCT or RNALater, formalin-fixed paraffin embedded malignant and non-malignant tissue, blood and other (urine, toenails, etc.) specimen processing and storage, clinical trial support, nucleic acid isolation | ||
| Thurston Arthritis Research Center Biorepository | Dr. Daniel Bracey | daniel_bracey@med.unc.edu |
| Maintains a biorepository for clincal joint and arthritis samples. | ||
| UNC CFAR HIV/STD Core Laboratory | Dr. Julie Nelson | cfarvim@med.unc.edu |
| MThe Core serves as a repository for long- and short-term storage of biological specimens from HIV+ patients in the UNC CFAR HIV Clinical Cohort (UCHCC) and maintains a current CDC-USPHS permit for importing HIV+ specimens from foreign countries. | ||
| NC Tissue Consortium | Moses McDaniel (Study Coordinator) | mailto:mcdanielmo17@ecu.edu |
| The NC Tissue Consortium is an agreement between ECU and UNC. These tissue specimens are only available to LCCC members | ||