Comprehensive Human Organ and Tissue Bank

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1. Related grant number

   RCMI BRIDGES • G12 MD007601

2. Resource Description

   Associated with Hawaii’s Legacy of Life organ donation team, the Comprehensive Human Organ and Tissue Bank receives organs that are unfortunately not placed for transplant. The donor’s families consent to provide the organs for research, and the donor’s deidentified clinical information is uploaded into our database. Flash frozen tissue: -heart -liver -kidney -lymph nodes -spleen -extensive clinical data and ethnicity information amended to each sample The Comprehensive Human Organ and Tissue Bank is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health - RCMI BRIDGES • G12 MD007601 (PI: Dr. M. Berry).

3. Service Provided by

   University of Hawaii Biorepository

4. Website(s)

   http://uhbio.jabsom.hawaii.edu/CHOTB.html