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The Core Incentive Plan (CIP) is back for 2025!

CIP is an internal funding initiative administered by UConn OVPR that provides seed funding to faculty from UConn Storrs to be allocated for research projects that specifically engage UConn's world-class diverse core facilities.

Learn more about the CIP

Research Tissue Repository Core Facility

Recruitment and Community Engagement Research Research Tissue Repository Core Facility

The UConn Health Research Biorepository consists of de-identified tissue and/or blood samples and patient data obtained from consented patients coupled with a database of clinical and laboratory data. De-identified samples are available to researchers. Our goal is to develop a comprehensive resource that will procure, characterize and distribute high quality human specimens according to rigid protocols and ethical guidelines.
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Contacts

Staff

Lorrie Perpetua

Tissue Bank Coordinator
lperpetua@uchc.edu
860.679.1889

Mary Melinda Sanders, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator 
msanders@uchc.edu
860.679.3386

Location

Campus Address

UConn Health

Mailing Address

263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030

Instrumentation

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Sample Assistance

Services include:

  • consenting of eligible patients
  • coordination for specimen collection
  • storage, data management and specimen distribution
  • collection of specimens to researcher's specifications (ex. procurement in RPMI media or RNAlater)
  • H & E, unstained and frozen sections on slides as well as paraffin and OCT curls
  • RNA and DNA isolation from specimens using methods that preserve the integrity of the nucleic acids