Clinical Sample Core

Boston Children'S Hospital, Boston MA

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Abstract

The goal of the clinical sample management core is to establish and maintain a collection of highly characterized donors/clinical material (e.g. PBMCs, plasma, bone marrow, saliva, etc) that have been collected, harvested and cryopreserved to support the projects proposed in this application. All cell material is cryopreserved using controlled rate cells freezing techniques that assure viable recovery of subsets at 85% or greater of the number of cells originally cryopreserved. Typically, these clinical samples will be acquired as site specific nested studies that are additions to ongoing clinical trials vaccine or other type of studies (e.g., assessing symptomatic or asymptomafic infecfion). The clinical sample management core regulatory and compliance team will assure that all human subject materials and MTA approvals are in place to permit use of the clinical material in a de identified format. The laboratory operates under College of American Pathologists Accreditation (CAP) and is audited annually for GCLP compliance. All laboratory activifies will be performed following GCLP. Cryopreserved materials will be transported from the Duke clinical sample management core to co-investigator laboratones using LN2 dry shippers.