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Biosample Services Facility
Director: Vance Morgan
Location: 65 Landsdowne Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge

 

Core Summary:

The Biosample Services Facility provides a broad spectrum of biosample processing,
management, and banking services to investigators in the Harvard-Partners research
community.

Services are available to IRB approved studies in the HMS-Partners community and beyond.
We accept whole blood from appropriately consented subjects for processing to DNA,
lymphoblast cell lines, serum, and plasma. We offer cryogenic storage of the purified products
as required, in addition to tracking of sample histories in a Laboratory Information
Management System dedicated to the BSF facility operation.

Personnel/Contact Information:

Director: Vance Morgan, Ph.D.
Phone: (617) 768-8518
Fax: (617) 768-8510
Email: tvmorgan@partners.org

Facilities and Equipment:

Location of Core:

The facility is located at 65 Landsdowne St, Cambridge.

Major Equipment:

Services:

DNA extraction from whole blood
Healthy volunteer specimen bank
Lymphoblast transformation
Plasma/serum isolation
Isolation and cryo-preservation of white blood cells
Sample plating
Tube-to-tube Aliquoting
Sample retrieval
Transportation

Fee Schedule/Rates:
Please see the website http://www.hpcgg.org for current rates.
Getting Started:

To access the core, please contact Vance Morgan at (617) 768-8518 or by email at
tvmorgan@partners.org.
Please also see website at http://www.hpcgg.org.

Departmental Web Link :

http://www.hpcgg.org