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NICHD Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders at the University of Maryland, Department of Pediatrics at Baltimore.
The NICHD Brain and Tissue Bank (BTB) for Developmental Disorders are contracted to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In 1991, NICHD funded a Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. in 1992. The BTB repository site and has a contract to solely operate the facility for the NICHD until 2014. The mission of the NICHD BTB is to advance the research of developmental disorders. The objective of this human tissue repository is to systematically collect, store, and distribute brain and other tissues for research dedicated to the improved understanding, care and treatment of individuals with developmental disorders.
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National Cancer Institute.
The Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN), Pediatric Division is a group of six member institutions, supported by NCI, that collect and distribute tissue to researchers across the United States and Canada. Since its establishment in 1987 the CHTN has provided more than 500,000 high quality specimens from a wide variety of organ sites to over a thousand investigators.
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Children’s Oncology Group (COG).
The COG Biopathology Center (BPC) at The Research Institute of Nationwide Children’s Hospital maintains the largest pediatric specimen bank in the nation. The BPC houses the COG Solid Tumor Tissue Bank, Pathology Center and the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and the Neuroblastoma Reference Laboratories.
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Other repositories at individual sites:
Children’s Mercy Hospitals & Clinics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Biorepository at Emory + Children’s. CHOP Cancer program. Duke. Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Institute at Duke
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