About the Catalog
The Biospecimen Catalog provides access to a pool of well annotated Biospecimens, organs and tissues. It gives researchers the ability to browse the available biospecimens, associated study descriptions, and allows them to request access to these items. It is a single convenient point of access to a pool of different Specimens.
Why Choose Us?
We're the leading Biopreservation and Biostorage provider in Sub-Saharan Africa. Trusted by many leading Research Institutions, Academic Institutions and Biomedical Companies for diagnostics, health care and basic research.
SARS-COV-2
We have Nasopharyngeal and Oralpharyngeal swabs, blood, urine, stool, plasma and PBMCS from CoVID-19 cases and controls.
Human Organs
We have the capacity to process and store high quality human biosamples needed for diagnostics, drug, or basic research.
Tissues
We are excited to help you with your project by providing you with quality controlled human tissues for clinical or basic research purposes.
Biospecimen
We have well annotated and quality controlled Nucleic acids (DNA & RNA), PLASMA, PBMCs, stool and many other Biospecimens
How the Catalog works
1. Read the Policies
Read through the policies and process for requesting Biospecimen.
2. Search for Specimens
Search to find and select the Biospecimen of your interest.
3. Create Shopping Cart
Select the Biospecimen you want, to include them in a shopping cart.
4. Make a Request
Complete the Biospecimen request form, submit and wait for feedback.
Our Catalog Numbers
99%
Viability
121+
Collaborations
238+
Studies
810,766+
Participants
2,653,982+
Biospecimen
Frequently Asked Questions
This Catalog is maintained by IBRH3AU Biorepository, a Biobank funded jointly by the NIH and Makerere University under the H3Africa Biorepository Initiative, located at Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) a Center of Academic Excellence, Health Care and Collaborative Research. The Biobank provides a resource of well characterized and annotated quality biospecimen. This resource is utilised by communicable and non-communicable disease researchers in an African population.
Human tissue samples and biofluid specimens such as blood samples are invaluable at all stages of drug/ therapeutic development, from target discovery and validation through to product testing for safety or efficacy, including FDA/ EMEA cross-reactivity panel testing.
Patients’ specimens play an absolutely pivotal role in medical advances. If you are considering participating in human biospecimen research, thank you! Although you will not materially benefit, you will be helping future patients. Tissue For Research does not liaise directly with patients and can not enroll patients directly for studies. Your hospital or hospice will usually have a research coordinator who can assist with this.
Patients’ specimens play an absolutely pivotal role in medical advances. If you are considering participating in human biospecimen research, thank you! Although you will not materially benefit, you will be helping future patients. Tissue For Research does not liaise directly with patients and can not enroll patients directly for studies. Your hospital or hospice will usually have a research coordinator who can assist with this.
Patients’ specimens play an absolutely pivotal role in medical advances. If you are considering participating in human biospecimen research, thank you! Although you will not materially benefit, you will be helping future patients. Tissue For Research does not liaise directly with patients and can not enroll patients directly for studies. Your hospital or hospice will usually have a research coordinator who can assist with this.
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