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NCRR's Division of Biomedical Technology supports research to develop innovative technologies and helps make them accessible to the biomedical research community.

NCRR's Division of Research Infrastructure supports programs to enhance the competitiveness of investigators in underserved states and institutions and also provides funding to build, expand, remodel, or renovate research facilities throughout the nation.

NCRR's Division of Comparative Medicine helps meet the needs of biomedical researchers for high-quality, disease-free animals and specialized animal research facilities.

NCRR's Division for Clinical Research Resources provides funding to biomedical research institutions to establish and maintain specialized clinical research facilities and clinical-grade biomaterials that enable clinical and patient-oriented research.

NCRR's Science Education Partnership Awards are designed to improve life science literacy throughout the nation.

Human Tissue and Organ Resource for Research

NCRR supports the Human Tissues and Organs Resource for Research (HTOR) Cooperative Agreement. This is a procurement network within the National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI)external link, opens in new window. NDRI is a nonprofit organization that procures and distributes normal and diseased human biomaterials, tissues, and organs to biomedical researchers in academia, government, and industry.

Tissue and organ donation to research provides an opportunity for people who wish to become donors, but whose tissues and organs cannot qualify for transplantation and might otherwise be discarded. Studies with human tissues and organs also serve as alternatives to the use of live animals in research.

By collaborating with various medical centers, hospitals, pathology services, eye banks, tissue banks, and organ procurement organizations, HTOR provides a wide variety of human tissues and organs—both diseased and normal—to researchers for laboratory studies. Such samples include tissues from the nervous system; pulmonary system; cardiovascular system; endocrine system; eyes, bone, and cartilage.

More than 4,000 specimens are delivered by HTOR annually to universities, medical centers, and biotechnology companies to facilitate scientific advances for a variety of biomedical sciences. Examples of science areas include biochemistry, cell biology, cancer diagnoses and treatments, infectious diseases, immunological diseases, cardiology, endocrinology, ophthalmology, nephrology, toxicology, and transplantation.

HTOR services are customized to the needs of each individual research protocol. Researchers who wish to receive tissues or organs should contact HTOR prior to completing their application forms. Approved researchers are entered into a queue for the appropriate specimen and are served, in turn, when the requested specimen becomes available. The charges for these tissues and organs are nominal.

Contact Information

For information about this service and how to access its resources, please contact:

Principal Investigator/Research Director
John T. Lonsdale, Ph.D.
National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI)
8 Penn Center
1628 JF Kennedy Boulevard, 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Telephone: 800-222-6374 x 271 or 215-557-7361 x 228
Fax: 215-557-7154
E-mail: jlonsdale@ndriresource.org

Senior Director
Sally Strickler
Telephone: 800-222-6374, ext. 227
Fax: 215-557-7154
E-mail: SStrickler@ndriresource.org

For program information, please contact:

Rosemarie Filart, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Officer
Division for Clinical Research Resources
National Center for Research Resources
National Institutes of Health
One Democracy Plaza
6701 Democracy Boulevard, MSC 4874
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4874 (20817 for express mail)
Telephone: 301-435-0178
Fax: 301-480-3661
E-mail: FilartR@mail.nih.gov

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