The Stanford Tissue Bank provides a portal to the following more specialized tissue repositories accessible to Stanford investigators:
Leukemia bank: managed by Dr. Peter Lee (
), Dept. of Medicine-Hematology. This repository includes cryopreserved cells from peripheral blood and bone marrow specimens including leukemias, myelodysplasias and myeloproliferative disorders.
Lymphoma bank: managed by Dr. Ronald Levy (
), Dept. of Medicine-Oncology. This repository includes frozen tissues, cryopreserved cells and paraffin blocks from lymphoma specimens representing all major diagnostic categories of lymphoma.
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) bank: managed by Dr. Robert Negrin (
), Dept. of Medicine-BMT. This repository includes both pre- and post-transplant peripheral blood and bone marrow specimens from patients with multiple myeloma, acute leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Histocompatibility Lab: managed by Dr. Carl Grumet (
), Dept. of Pathology. This repository includes DNA specimens isolated from residual blood, bone marrow, and lymph node material from recipients and donors for hematopoietic cell transplant, renal transplant and cardiac transplant, as well as pre-transplant sera from renal and cardiac transplant patients.
Neurosurgical tissue bank: managed by Dr. Griffith Harsh (
), Dept. of Neurosurgery. This repository includes both benign and malignant CNS specimens.
Northern California Cancer Center (NCCC): managed by various investigators at the NCCC; contact is Dr. Dee West (
). Among its many repositories, the NCCC is one of six centers comprising the Breast Cancer Family Registry, which has banked clinically-annotated tumor blocks as well as genomic DNA from probands and family members. Specimens are available to Stanford investigators through approval of submitted requests, evaluated by an advisory committee for scientific merit and appropriate use of resources.
