Core--Tissue Procurement Facility

组织采购共享资源为犹他大学的研究人员提供了保存最完好的组织和细胞，这些组织和细胞来自已知情同意参与癌症研究的人类受试者。我们集中的共享资源使许多研究人员不必准备方案和寻求IRB的批准来收集组织和细胞。它还减轻了患者在评估和给予知情同意方面的负担。征得同意的受试者还被要求允许将他们的组织和细胞样本与医学信息联系起来，并授权使用受保护的健康信息来改进研究 设计和数据解释。保密性由分配的唯一标识符和NCI颁发的保密性证书提供。收集的组织和细胞样本分为新鲜样本、冷冻样本和固定样本。分发给调查人员，他们遵循便于追踪样本的程序。 其成果是集中采购、储存和分配用于癌症研究的组织和细胞。

The Tissue Procurement Shared Resource provides investigators at the University of Utah with optimally preserved tissues and cells from human subjects who have given their informed consent to participate in cancer research. Our centralized shared resource relieves many investigators from the need to prepare protocols and seek IRB approval to collect tissue and cells. It also reduces the burden placed on patients to evaluate and grant informed consent. Consented subjects are also asked for permission to link their tissue and cell specimens to medical information and authorization to use protected health information to improve study design and data interpretation. Confidentiality is provided by assignment of unique identifiers and award of a Confidentiality Certificate from NCI. Collected tissue and cell specimens are divided into fresh, frozen and fixed samples. Distribution is to investigators who follow a procedure that facilitates tracking of the samples. The outcome has been centralized procurement, storage, and distribution of tissues and cells for cancer research.