Brenda:

A number of years ago, the State of Florida, through what was then
called the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services ran a rather
extensive Brain Bank of Alzheimer's patients.  It was operated under
contract with, I believe, U of FL, U of Miami and several of the larger
hospitals in the state.  I believe it is now run through the State of
Florida's Department of Health, or possibly Aging and Adult.

The contracts we ran were quite verbose in reference to harvesting,
cataloging, storage, and utilizing the tissue.  Perhaps someone there
could help

Greg Schmidt

Brenda G. Kavanaugh wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Our institution is attempting to create a Tissue Resource for basic
> science investigators who use human autopsy tissue for their
> research.  I am writing with hopes that someone else has already
> created this type of resource and can answer some questions for us.
> Basically what we are doing is building on a Brain Bank concept that
> is already in place here as part of our Alzheimer's Disease Center.
> This Tissue Resource would in essence bank tissue (from consented
> subjects who have donated tissue at autopsy) and distribute it to
> investigators.  Investigators are required to submit their requests
> in writing disclosing that they indeed have an IRB
> approval/exemption, are funded to do the research etc.  An advisory
> committee (members include an attorney, an IRB member, a pathologist
> etc) reviews these requests and approves the distribution of the
> tissue to the investigator.
>
> As with most educational institutions these days, we have several
> small biotech companies being started by investigators here.  We are
> especially concerned about the issues surrounding the distribution of
> tissue to a for profit entity, especially when any one particular
> researcher could be conducting research using tissue in both their
> academic lab and their for-profit lab.
>
> Enough background I think..... here are the questions!
>
>
> What legal documents do you have in place guaranteeing
> confidentiality of the patient's and their families for both academic
> and corporate research entities?
>
> If the same researcher is part of an academic entity as well as a for
> profit entity - how does your institution govern the distribution of
> tissue to those two entities?  How does the investigator assure your
> institution that no flow of tissue occurs between the two entities?
>
> Please feel free to forward this message to someone in your
> institution who can best answer these questions, if that person is
> indeed not you.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Brenda Kavanaugh, Administrator
> University of Rochester
> Center for Aging and Developmental Biology
> Nathan Shock Center on Aging
> Alzheimer's Disease Center
> 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 645
> Rochester, NY  14642
> Phone:  (585) 273-1749
> FAX:  (585) 506-1957
> Email:  xxxxxx@urmc.rochester.edu
>
>
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