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Tissue and Blood Repository
Director: William Richards
Location: Thorn Building, 4th Floor, Boston

 

Core Summary:

This Tissue and Blood Repository Core provides specimen acquisition, processing and storage services, and access to archived frozen tissue specimens to the BWH/MGH/DFCI research community.

Personnel/Contact Information:

Director: William G. Richards, Ph.D.
Phone: (617) 732-6837
Fax: (617) 264-6810
Email: wrichards@partners.org

Other Staff:

Kathleen Kee
Phone: (617) 732-6780
Fax: (617) 264-6810
Email: kkee@partners.org

Facilities and Equipment:

Location of Core:

Thorn 403, 408, 410, 413.

Major Equipment:

Protected cryo-storage at –80C, -140C, histology, cell culture.

FY12 User Fees (Effective 10/1/11):
Service
Internal Users
External Users
Partners
Non-Partners AMC and Non-Profit
For-Profit and Industry
Small Case
$241
$347
$383
Medium Case
$418
$602
$665
Large Case
$633
$912
$1,006
Extra Large Case
$871
$1,254
$1,385
Prostate Case
$466
$671
$741
Small blood processing
$39
$56
$62
Blood processing
$105
$151
$167
RTD Stem cell
$648
$933
$1,030
RTD breast
$253
$364
$402
RTD
$143
$206
$227
RTD + shipping
$216
$311
$343
RTD integrated
$51
$73.40
$81
Grossing/fresh distribution
$233
$336
$370
DNA
$128
$184
$204
Tech labor (hourly
$47
$67.70
$75
Blood and Saliva storage
$59
$85
$94
Blood storage
$32
$46
$51
Sample storage
$7
$10.10
$11.10
Embedding
$15
$21.60
$24
H&E slides
$15
$21.60
$24
Thick sections first cut
$24
$34.60
$38
Thick sections
$2
$2.90
$3.20
Trizol
$1.50
$2.15
$2.40
General snap
$109
$157
$173

 

Services:

An ‘Account’ is a collection of specimens related to a protocol-based, contracted agreement to collect, process and/or store specimens on behalf of an investigator, group or program.
‘General Holdings’ are anonymous specimens accrued by the bank, not associated with a particular account, and generally available to investigators for a fee.

Getting Started:

To access the core, request specimens or establish an account, please contact Kathleen Kee at
(617) 732-6780 or by email at kkee@partners.org.