THE CANADIAN BIOSAMPLE REPOSITORY

The CBSR facility provides efficient and robust biosample processing, management, storage and retrieval infrastructure.  The CBSR operates on a cost-recovery basis to investigators.

Services are available to Research Ethics Board (REB) approved studies. We accept any human tissue from appropriately consented subjects for processing to DNA, RNA, serum, plasma, peripheral blood cells, fixed tissue, and tissue blocks.

Once your samples have been collected and processed, CBSR will provide short and long-term sample storage, and retrieval(typically within 24hrs) upon request. Our storage services include robust robotic systems for sample aliquoting, tracking, storage, and retrieval to ensure chain of custody on all samples. Our temperature monitoring system ensures that all samples are maintained at the chosen temperature, and provides regulatory-grade audit trail for all samples.

We will work with you to design a plan to fit your processing, storage and retrieval needs. We can help with everything from ethics approval, barcode labeling, and UI tracking, to sample collection, and shipping. For more information about , please contact the CBSR at 780-492-4574 or by email at
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