Core Resources : Biorepository Core
Biorepository Core
Core Director: Jacob McCauley, Ph.D.
Core Manager: Sandra West swest@med.miami.edu
- Services Provided
- Sample Shipping Guidelines
- Cost Estimates
- External Service Request Form
- Ordering Labels for Existing Studies
A biorepository is a place where investigators can deposit and store biological material. Genetic samples of patients and study participants in research from all over the world are preserved for investigations dealing with everything from diseases to mental conditions and even psychological traits. The samples may be as minute as a bit of saliva but the genetic code that they reveal could lead to major medical breakthroughs. They must be stored in precise temperature and atmospheric conditions to prevent decay that could corrupt findings.
The Biorepository Laboratory facility at the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics is a state-of-the-art facility that collects, processes and stores specimens for scientific research around the world. Located on the 4th floor of the Biomedical research Building on University of Miami Medical Campus, the repository is supervised by a full-time technical core director, manager and eight research technicians.
Currently, there are 44 registered study samples stored in the Biorepository sample collection section. The Biorepository has received 102,896 unique samples (a sample being defined as a unique patient collection set) in the collection with a total tube tracking count of 611,475 (all tubes, derivatives, allocations and iterations of a sample)