The Comprehensive Transplant Center (CTC) Biorepository provides high-quality, clinically annotated normal and diseased human biospecimens for current and future Ohio State University-affiliated research. Our ultimate goal is to enhance human tissue research and precipitate innovative scientific discovery that will result in improved patient treatments and outcomes.
We are a centralized clinical data and biospecimen repository within the CTC, and are supported as a core facility under the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute (DHLRI). Our biorepository and its Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved Total Transplant Care Protocol (TTCP; IRB Protocol # 2017H0309) and TTCP Honest Broker Protocol (IRB Protocol # 2017H0309) cover the collection, processing, storage and distribution of human specimens and clinical data from Ohio State transplant patients and from healthy donors through Lifeline of Ohio Organ Procurement Agency.
Patients can participate in Ohio State’s Total Transplant Care Program (TTCP) by donating tissue to the Comprehensive Transplant Center’s Biorepository.
The CTC Biorepository and its IRB protocols function to facilitate efficient specimen and data access to researchers, lower administrative burdens, increase the patient participation rates and ensure the protection of patients and their data, while serving to stimulate human tissue research at OSU. Our hope is this translates into researchers being more competitive for grants and high impact publications that further moves our research institute toward an era of great scientific growth.
Our Goals
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Establish a longitudinal clinical and related data repository under the Total Transplant Care Protocol
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Establish a longitudinal repository within the CTC of tissue and fluids from TTCP-consented patients with specific diseases
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Procure biospecimens from control or "normal" organs and tissue, as well as other biospecimens suitable for research
Types of Donors for Biospecimen Procurements
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Control Lifeline donors
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Transplant or surgical patients
Additional Information
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How the data and biospecimens are collected and stored
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Types of specimens collected
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Investigator application for samples
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Ethics and patient protection