NIMH, NICHD, AND NINDS BRAIN AND TISSUE REPOSITORY

美国国家精神卫生研究所（NIMH）、尤尼斯·肯尼迪·施莱弗国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所（NICHD）、美国国家神经疾病和中风研究所（NINDS）、美国国家卫生研究院，力求使人类脑组织和生物标本样本更广泛地用于神经、精神和神经发育障碍的研究。该倡议的目标是增加人类疾病的可获得性和控制生物标本，增加疾病宣传和患者社区的积极参与，并更有效地获取、管理、储存和分发这些组织，最终目标是减轻神经系统疾病的负担。为此，NIH打算建立多个合同收集站点（即NIH脑和组织库（NBTR）），以提供积极获取、接收、处理、存储、管理、保存和分发中枢神经系统和相关生物标本（包括胎儿组织）给合格的研究人员的服务。这些服务以前是通过已经到期和/或将在未来几年内到期的赠款提供的。美国国立卫生研究院现在将通过竞争性授予合同继续这些现有的服务。新的资源也被鼓励参与竞争。

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, seek to make human brain tissue and biospecimen samples more widely available for research on neurological, psychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders. The objective of this initiative is to increase availability of human disease and control biospecimens, increase proactive involvement of the disease advocacy and patient communities, and more efficiently acquire, curate, store, and distribute these tissues with the ultimate goal of reducing the burden of nervous system disorders. In order to do so, the NIH intends to establish multiple contract collection sites (i.e., the NIH Brain and Tissue Repositories (NBTR)) to provide services that will actively acquire, receive, process, store, curate, preserve, and distribute central nervous system and related biological specimens (including fetal tissues) to qualified investigators. These services were previously provided through grants that have expired and/or will be expiring in the coming years. The NIH will now continue these existing services through competitively awarded contracts. New sources are also encouraged to compete.