Brain Banks Across the United States

Brain banking is an important resource for the study of many diseases and disorders. There are currently several brain and tissue banks all over the world that focus specifically on Parkinson's and/or Alzheimer's Research.

The following links will provide you information on brain banks with web links, phone numbers and where available, short descriptions of each. Note that some of these resources may be available to study participants only. If you have any other information on Brain Banks or have corrected information for any of the Brain Banks listed please send and email to BrainBanks@ninds.nih.gov.

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ALABAMA

Alzheimer's Disease Center
Department of Neurology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sparks Center Bldg, Suite 420
1720 7th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-0017
Phone: (205) 934-1668
Fax: (205) 975-7365
ADC Home: http://main.uab.edu/neurology/Templates/Inner.aspx?durki=11627&pid=11627
Info on Brain Donation: http://main.uab.edu/neurology/Templates/Inner.aspx?pid=61773

ARIZONA

Sun Health Research Institute
10515 W. Santa Fe Drive
Sun City, AZ 85351
Phone: (623) 876-5328
SHRI Home: http://www.shri.org/index.cfm
Info on Brain Donation: http://www.shri.org/brainbank/
Scientists at Sun Health Research Institute have had a significant impact on how physicians diagnose and treat diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and arthritis. Founded in 1986, the Institute is one of just 29 national Alzheimer's Disease Core Centers in the nation. One key to the successes at the Institute has been its Brain Donation Program, which has provided researchers in Sun City and around the world with brain tissue to aid in their search for the cause and cure of those diseases.

CALIFORNIA

Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Andrus Gerontology Center
University of Southern California
3715 McClintock Avenue, MC-0191
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191
Phone: (213) 740-7777
Web: http://www.usc.edu/dept/gero/ADRC
The focus of the USC ADRC is reducing the cognitive and behavioral impact of Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular dementia among ethnically diverse populations. The objective of the ADRC is to provide a mechanism for integrating, coordinating, fostering and developing interdisciplinary cooperation of a group of established investigators conducting programs of research on AD, CVD, and related disorders of older people. The ADRC provides financial, intellectual, patients, biological specimen resources to support cooperative interactions among scientists at USC, other Alzheimer Centers, and the community at large. It also fosters an environment that will 1) strengthen research on AD, CVD, and related disorders, 2) increase productivity, and 3) generate new ideas, through formal interdisciplinary collaborations, both locally and nationally. The ADRC collaborates specifically with the National Alzheimer Coordinating Center (NACC) to contribute to a standardized clinical and neuropathological database and in the future anticipates working with the National Cell Repository for Alzheimer Disease (NCRAD) to share biological specimens.

Human Brain and Spinal and Spinal Fluid Resource Center VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center
11301 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90073
Phone: (310) 268-3536
Fax: (310) 268-4768 Web: http://www.loni.ucla.edu/uclabrainbank
The Human Brain and Spinal Fluid Resource Center (Center) was established in 1961 to provide a vital service to neuroscientists. The Center collects, cryogenically stores, and distributes donated tissue to research scientists around the world. Collection occurs through their "Gift of Hope" anatomical donor program which accepts tissue donation from people with neurological/psychiatric disorders. These disorders include Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, and many others as well as individuals without neurological/psychiatric disorders. The Center is a consortium of two banks, the Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Bank and the Multiple Sclerosis Human Neurospecimen Bank.

Stanford/VA Alzheimer's Disease Core Center
Aging Clinical Research Center
3801 Miranda Ave., 151 Y
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone: (650) 852-3287
Fax: (650) 852-3297
Web: http://alzheimer.stanford.edu
Information on donation: http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/neuropathology.shtml
The center is part of the Aging Clinical Research Center, supported by both Stanford and the VA and the National Institute on Aging. It currently has more than 1,000 samples from about 40 brains, available to researchers at any academic research center.

UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center
Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center
4860 Y Street, Suite 3900
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: (916) 734-5496
Web: http://alzheimer.ucdavis.edu/
Brain banking for this facility is open to patients of the clinical research being conducted at the Center only. If you wish to discuss participation in the clinical research you can call the number listed above to speak to the facility representative. The Center is located within the Department of Neurosciences in the Ambulatory Care Building at the UC Davis Medical Center. Under the direction of Professor and Chair W Jagust MD, the NIH-funded Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) provides a fully-staffed site for the care and etiologic studies of up to 250 new dementia patients per year, 90% of whom carry the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. An electronic base of clinical, cognitive, and imaging characteristics and of DNA samples is maintained on over 500 live patients with a complementary brain bank. Access to patients, the data base, DNA, and other tissue specimens is available to funded CNRU investigators with approved and relevant protocols though application to the ADC. Current examples of CNRU research interactions include ongoing and projected studies by former CNRU New Investigator JW Miller, PhD, on folate, vitamin B12, and hyperhomocysteinemia in dementia syndromes, and of Program Director CH Halsted, MD, and Genetics Subcore Director CH Warden, PhD, on potential folate hydrolase polymorphisms in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 706
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 476-1820
USCF Aging Center Web: http://memory.ucsf.edu/
Brain Donation Information Web: http://memory.ucsf.edu/Research/autopsy.html
The UCSF Memory & Aging Center provides a brain autopsy service for patients registered and seen at UCSF. Their autopsy program is associated primarily with various ongoing research projects.

FLORIDA

Since 1987, Florida has conducted a Brain Bank program as part of the State Alzheimer's Disease Initiative (ADI). The Florida Brain Bank conducts analysis on postmortem brains clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other related dementia. Besides providing brain tissue for Alzheimer's research that may lead to finding a cause and developing ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer's, the Brain Bank provides families with a confirmation or correction of the clinical diagnosis. Services include accepting referrals from all respite and model day care service providers and conducting subsequent diagnostic workups for all referred consumers and for the general public. The Florida Brain Bank is located in Miami Beach, at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, 305-674-2543. The Alzheimer Resource Center in Orlando coordinates Brain Bank activities for Pasco, Pinellas, and nine other counties in west central Florida. For an application or information, call them toll-free at 1-800-330-1910. They also have a web site, www.alzheimerorlando.com.

Alzheimer's Disease Initiative
Wien Center Memory Disorder Clinic
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
4300 Alton Road
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Phone: (305) 674-2018
Mt. Sinai Medical Center website: http://www.msmc.com/body.cfm?oTopId=0&id=236

The Wien Center is on the cutting edge of memory disorder diagnosis and treatment. Utilizing the combined resources of Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of Miami's Department of Psychiatry, genetic and medical research is continuously conducted. Clinical drug trials allow the Center to provide patients with the most current treatments available. Additionally, the Wien Center actively participates in and coordinates the State of Florida Brain Bank program.

The Alzheimer Resource Center
1400 North Semoran Blvd., Suites A&B
Orlando, FL 32807
800-number: 1-800-330-1910
Phone: (407) 843-1910
Fax: (407) 381-4155
Resource Center Web: http://www.alzheimerresourcecenter.cc/
Information on Donation: http://www.alzheimerresourcecenter.cc/Brain_Bank_Program.htm

The Alzheimer Resource Center coordinates the State of Florida Brain Bank Research Program for a 17 county area. The purpose of this program is to coordinate the donation of brain tissue for study and research and assists the medical community in finding the cause of Alzheimer's disease so that it can become preventable and treatable.

McKnight Brain Institute
University of Florida
PO Box 100015
100 S. Newel Drive
Gainesville, FL 32610-0015
Phone: (352) 294-0537
Fax: (352) 846-0185
Web: http://www.mbi.ufl.edu/

The Human Brain Tissue Bank (HBTB) is a core facility of the Evelyn F. & William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida (MBI-UF). Its purpose is to facilitate the procurement, characterization, storage and dissemination of human brain tissue to principal investigators for brain research. Because the human brain is vulnerable to certain diseases (such as Alzheimer's Disease) that do not occur in other species, it makes the study of human brain tissue essential if we are to explain and hopefully treat the destructive processes of these diseases. While the willingness of donors (with central nervous system disorders) increases there is a very real need for normal control tissues as well.

Abigail Van Buren's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Neuropathology Laboratory
4500 San Pablo Road
Jacksonville, FL 32224
Phone: (904) 223-2000
Web: http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/alzheimers_center/index.cfm

The Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) is one of 30 Alzheimer's disease research centers across the country designated and funded by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. The Mayo ADRC is jointly based in Rochester MN and Jacksonville FL. The Mayo ADRC is organized into five cores. The neuropathology core performs detailed neuropathologic examinations on patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia such that a definite diagnosis of the cause of cognitive impairment/dementia can be determined. This Core also provides a mechanism for characterizing cognitively normal elderly individuals, as well as provides tissue to other investigators who are researching aging and dementia.

Brain Endowment Bank
Department of Neurology
University of Miami School of Medicine
1501 North West 9th Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
Telephone: (800) 862 7246
Fax: (305) 548 4678
Dept of Neurology Web: http://neurology.med.miami.edu/
The Department of Neurology is home to the Brain Endowment Bank, which conducts clinical and basic research of the human brain including Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, drug addiction, and aging; the Sleep Disorders Center, which provides a wide range of services for individuals with sleep related disturbances; and the International Center for Epilepsy, to name a few. Headed by Deborah Mash, Ph.D., professor, director of research, and Levey Chair in Parkinson's Disease Research, the bank's research team educates the public about the importance of brain donation as a permanent and invaluable research resource. The donor base includes normal and diseased brains from individuals with neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Information on the Brain Endowment Bank can be found: http://neurology.med.miami.edu/research_div_basic_research.asp.

GEORGIA

Alzheimer's Research Center
Medical College of Georgia
1120 15th Street
Augusta, GA 30912
Phone: (706) 721-6356
Web: http://www.mcg.edu/centers/Alz/bbank.html
The Alzheimer's Research Center was developed to support collaborative basic and clinical research in the area of Alzheimer's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders, by (1) promoting interdisciplinary approaches to answering research questions, (2) providing a venue for regular meetings of its members for the purpose of sharing members' research findings, the latest published works in the field, and supporting visits to this campus by outside experts, (3) providing course materials and lectures related to Alzheimer's disease for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate student instruction , and (4) supporting two core facilities, the Neurological Disorder Database Registry, and the Animal Behavior Center. The human primate section of the Brain Bank website is currently under development.

Alzheimer's Disease Center
Emory University
Wesley Woods Health Center, 2nd Floor
1841 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30329
Phone: (404) 728-6950
Web: http://www.med.emory.edu/ADC/index.html
The Alzheimer's Disease Center at Emory University provides an Autopsy Program for patients who have and have not been seen by a physician at Emory. For information concerning autopsies you can contact the Alzheimer's Disease Center Autopsy Coordinator at (404) 728-4881.

ILLINOIS

Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
PO Box 19643
Southern Illinois School of Medicine
Springfield, IL 62794-9643
Phone: (217) 545-8249
Fax: (217) 545-1903
Web: http://www.siumed.edu/cadrd/cadrd.html
The SIU Center for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders (CADRD) was established in 1987 when the Illinois legislature mandated two regional Alzheimer disease assistance centers. Of the two centers established as a result, CADRD serves rural Illinois, a total of 93 counties. The second, Rush Medical Center, serves the greater Chicago area (Cook county and the 8 collar counties). A third center, Northwestern Alzheimer's Disease Center was added through legislation in 1997 and also serves the greater Chicago area. Doctors working at CADRD study and treat patients suffering from Parkinson disease, and devote considerable time and effort to the study of other disorders affecting older people, including locomotor disorders (gait disturbances) and tremor. CADRD:

• Provides clinical services to patients and their families
• Supports research through a brain bank autopsy program
• Provides educational services to both medical professionals and lay persons

Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
320 E. Superior
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 908-9399
Fax: (312) 908-8789
Web: http://www.brain.northwestern.edu/index.html
Information on Brain Endowment: http://www.brain.northwestern.edu/mdad/brainendowment.html

Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
Armour Academic Center
600 S. Paulina Street, Suite 1038
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 942-4823
Web: http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-R12388.html
The Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center Laboratory continues to serve the Northern Illinois community through the post-mortem evaluation of brain tissue of persons from two sources:

• people clinically evaluated by RADC staff
• participants in the Religious Orders Study and the Memory and Aging Project

INDIANA

Indiana Alzheimer's Disease Center
Indiana University Medical Center
For more information on autopsy services contact:
Francine Epperson
Autopsy Coordinator
Indiana University School of Medicine
Department off Pathology and Lab Medicine
635 Barnhill Dr, MS A142
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: (317) 274-1590
Fax: (317) 274-0504
Email: freppers@iupui.edu
Web: http://iadc.iupui.edu/index.htm

KANSAS

Brain Tissue Bank and Research Laboratory
Kansas University Medical Center
3901 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, KS 66160
Phone: (913) 588-0103
Fax: (913) 588-6414

KENTUCKY

Sanders-Brown Research Center on Aging
University of Kentucky
101 Sanders-Brown Bldg
Lexington KY 40536
Phone: (859) 323-6040
Fax: (859) 323-2866
Web: http://www.mc.uky.edu/coa/
The Neuropathology Core performs short postmortem interval autopsies on patients with AD and age-related dementing disorders and control subjects, and provides fresh and frozen specimens to AD investigators at UK and outside institutions. It maintains a tissue bank of brain specimens, cerebrospinal fluid and synaptosome preparations from autopsied subjects.

MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center
McLean Hospital
115 Mill St.
Belmont, Ma 02178
Phone: 1-800-272-4622 (information on donations)
Alternate Phone: (617) 855-2400
Fax: (617) 855-3199
Web: http://www.brainbank.mclean.org/
The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center has been established at McLean Hospital as a centralized resource for the collection and distribution of human brain specimens for brain research.

Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
Massachusetts General Hospital
Building 114 16th Street, 114-2001
Charlestown, MA 02129-4404
Phone: (617) 726-1278
Fax: (617) 724-1480
Web: http://www.mghmind.org/
Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease was founded in 2001 with a mission to translate laboratory discoveries into prevention, treatment and cures for Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Their infrastructure includes equipment and resources that are essential for translational research: high-tech microscopes, gene sequencing machines, a human brain bank, drug screening robotics, and a laboratory for testing new disease-fighting strategies in mice.

Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
WACC 830
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 726-3987
Fax: (617) 726-4101
Web: http://madrc.org/
The Neuropathology Core was established as an integral part of the Massachusetts ADRC in 1985. The goals of the Core are:

• To establish accurate neuropathological diagnoses on all brains donated to the ADRC Tissue Resource Center;
• To submit a standardized report with clinical-pathological correlation and interpretation of findings to investigators in the Clinical Core;
  • To prepare brain tissues in a standardized manner for use by qualified investigators in the field of AD research;
  • To maintain the ADRC Tissue Resource Center as a source of brain tissue for investigators studying AD;
  • To facilitate correlative studies of pathology with clinical, behavioral, anatomic, genetic and neuroimaging aspects of AD; To serve as a resource for training and educating future investigators in the neuroanatomy and neuropathology of disorders of dementia.

MICHIGAN

Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
University of Michigan
300 N. Ingalls, Room 3D05
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0489
Phone: (734) 936-8764
Fax: (734) 936-8967
Web: http://sitemaker.med.umich.edu/madrc
The MADRC is one of 32 centers in the nation that are devoted to research, clinical care, neuropathologic studies, and educational activities in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders. The Center was established in 1989 at the University of Michigan. The Neuropathology Core coordinates the collection, storage and postmortem analysis of brain tissue for research purposes.

MINNESOTA

Alzheimer's Research Center
Regions Hospital Foundation
640 Jackson St.
St. Paul, MN 55101
Phone: (651) 254-2393 (800) 229-2872
Fax: (651) 254-3661
Web: http://www.alzheimersinfo.org/
The Regions Hospital Alzheimer's Research Center is internationally known for its pioneering research on treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease. Located at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN the Alzheimer's Research Center maintains one of the worlds largest human brain banks for research on Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders.

Abigail Van Buren's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
200 First St., S.W.
Rochester, MN 55905
Phone: (507) 284-6828
Web: http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/alzheimers_center/index.cfm
The purpose of the center is to provide care for dementia patients and promote research and education on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The Mayo ADRC is organized into five cores. The neuropathology core performs detailed neuropathologic examinations on patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia such that a definite diagnosis of the cause of cognitive impairment/dementia can be determined. This Core also provides a mechanism for characterizing cognitively normal elderly individuals, as well as provides tissue to other investigators who are researching aging and dementia.

MISSOURI

Alzheimer's Brain Bank
Department Of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
St. Louis University Medical Center
1221 S. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63104
Phone: (314) 268-5490
Web: http://medschool.slu.edu/psych/index.phtml?page=brainbank&cat=specialties
The Saint Louis University Brain Bank focuses primarily on Alzheimer's disease, but includes research on other brain disorders as well. Founded by Dr. George Grossberg in 1985 with help from the Alzheimer's Association, Saint Louis University Brain Bank is now one of the largest community brain banks in the country.

Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Department of Neurology
Washington University
4488 Forest Park Avenue, Suite 130
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: (314) 286-2881
Fax: (314) 286-2763
Web: http://alzheimer.wustl.edu/adrc2/default.htm
The Neuropathology Core provides postmortem research assessments of brain changes in participants who died and have granted autopsy permission. Families gain a report from the neuropathologist of the final diagnosis. The information gained from autopsy is especially important for research purposes to aid in the search for clues in the brains of Alzheimer's patients which may lead to a better understanding of the causes of this illness. Equally important to the analysis of Alzheimer's brains is the study of brain tissue from healthy elderly persons. Without such efforts, our ability to discern meaningful changes in brain pathology would be impossible. In addition, the Neuropathology Core banks portions of these tissues, as well as blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for future studies.

NEW YORK

Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Research Center (ADRC)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1230
New York, NY 10029-6574
Phone: (212) 241-1844
Web: http://www.mssm.edu/psychiatry/adrc/
Tissue Donation Program: http://www.mssm.edu/psychiatry/adrc/brain_tissue_donation.shtml
The goals of the Brain Tissue Donation Program are to improve our ability to diagnose Alzheimer's disease as early as possible, to improve existing treatments, to develop new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, and to learn more about the disease process. The Brain and Biologic Studies of Aging, Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease Research Program of Mount Sinai School of Medicine is dedicated to furthering the scientific understanding of both healthy aging and of brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), and to the development of new treatments. This research effort has been ongoing for more than 20 years and has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Alzheimer's Disease and Schizophrenia Brain Bank
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Box 1230, One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, NY 10029-6571
Phone: (718) 584-9000 ext 6082
Fax: (718) 365-9622
Web: http://www.mssm.edu/psychiatry/neuropathab.shtml
Consent form: http://www.mssm.edu/psychiatry/adrc/studies/brain_tissue_donation/pdf/autopsy_donation_consent_form.pdf
Directed by Dr. Vahram Haroutunian, continues collecting, neuropathologically characterizing, and distributing, for research purposes, brain tissue specimens derived from elderly schizophrenic and psychiatrically ill patients who have been clinically and psychometrically assessed in life.

Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain
630 West 168th Street, P&S Box 16
New York, NY 10032
Phone (212) 305-1818
Fax (212) 342-2849
Web: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/taub/index.html
The Taub Institute's Alzheimer's disease Research Center performs an essential research procedure to learn about memory disorders: brain autopsy or brain donation. True diagnosis of memory disorder is dependent upon studying both diseased and normal brain tissue at death. Our ability to understand how Alzheimer's disease affects the brain and causes debilitating memory loss, confusion, and eventually death, is dependent upon studying brain tissue. Brain autopsy is also useful in clarifying risks to relatives of people with Alzheimer's disease, which in some cases has been identified as a genetic disorder.

New York Brain Bank
Columbia University
3959 Broadway
New York, NY 10032
Telephone: (212) 305-2299
Fax: (212) 342-0083
Web: http://www.nybb.hs.columbia.edu/
The New York Brain Bank (NYBB) at Columbia University was established to collect postmortem human brains to meet the needs of neuroscientists investigating specific psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Alzheimer's Disease Center
Department of Pathology
New York University Medical Center
550 First Ave, Room THN314
New York, NY 10016
General Information Phone: (212) 263-8088
Autopsy Information: (212) 263- 6262
Web: http://www.med.nyu.edu/adc/
The NYU Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) is part of the Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, located in midtown Manhattan, in New York City, New York. The Neuropathology Core is best known to research participants and their families for its brain donation program. Through the brain donation program and other efforts, this core conducts thorough postmortem examinations (autopsies) and maintains a brain bank for continued study by Alzheimer's researchers.

New York University School of Medicine
Aging & Dementia Research Center
Brain Donation Program
560 First Avenue THN #314
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (212) 263-6262
Fax: (212) 263-6991

NORTH CAROLINA

Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank
Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
2200 W. Main Street, Suite A230
Box 3503 DUMC
Durham, NC 27705
Phone: (866) 444-2372 (919) 416-5388
Web: http://adrc.mc.duke.edu/BB.htm
The Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank is a repository of nearly 1200 human brains that contains approximately 750 brains from patients with Alzheimer's Disease and related dementing disorders and 250 brains with other neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Huntington's Disease and Muscular Dystrophy. Approximately 200 Normal Control Brains are available.

OHIO

Human Tissue Procurement Facility
Institute of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Phone: (216) 844-5335
Web: http://www.case.edu
The purpose of the Human Tissue Procurement Facility (HTPF) is to prospectively collect, prepare, and distribute high quality human tissue samples to researchers studying cancer and other diseases.

Human Tissue Resource Network
Department of Pathology
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Starling-Loving Hall
320 W. 10th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Phone: (614) 293-8528
Fax: (614) 293-5851
Web: http://www.pathology.osu.edu/htrn/default.asp
The Human Tissue Resource Network (HTRN) is funded through federal and corporate research programs for the collection, banking and distribution of human tissue and fluid specimens. The HTRN is comprised of the Research Histology Core Facility (RHCF), Tissue Archive Service, Tissue Procurement Service, AIDS and Cancer Specimen Bank, the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) Pathology Coordinating Office (PCO), and an Adenoma Polyp Specimen Bank. The HTRN unites tissue-based research resources within the OSU Department of Pathology and promotes collaborative research within the OSU Medical Center and related national human research projects.

University Memory and Aging Center
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
University Hospitals of Cleveland
12200 Fairhill Road
Cleveland, OH 44129
Phone: (800) 252-5048
Local: (216) 844-6400
Web: http://www.ohioalzcenter.org/
Tissue Donation: http://www.ohioalzcenter.org/recptdesk.html

OREGON

Oregon Brain Bank
Division of Pathology, L-113
Neuropath Section
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR 97239
Phone: (503) 494-6923
Web: http://www.ohsu.edu/pathology/win/MainOBBIndex.htm
The Organ Brain Bank was established in 1990 with the assistance of the Alzheimer's Research Alliance of Oregon. The bank serves two main functions; first to provide a neuropathologic diagnosis of organic dementia's in a cohort of NIH sponsored research subjects and second to harvest, bank and disperse postmortem tissue for use in neurodegenerative research. Although the focus is on Alzheimer's, tissue from patients with Huntington's, Parkinson's, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Controls and other disorders are also available.

PENNSYLVANIA

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Center
Department of Neurology
Thomas Jefferson University
834 Chestnut Street, Suite 420
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 955-6692
Web: http://www.jeffersonhospital.org
Jefferson's Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Center is a major referral center in the Delaware Valley. The Center provides comprehensive and individualized diagnostic services and therapeutic options to patients with various types of dementia. Patients evaluated at the Center may suffer from Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke, cancer, infections, head trauma and other degenerative central nervous system conditions. In addition to its clinical programs, the Center is involved in a number of basic science research projects that are advancing fundamental knowledge on these dementing disorders, while pursuing new treatment modalities. It also provides educational programs for patient's families and caregivers. The Center includes a brain bank that receives brains for diagnostic and research purposes.

National Disease Research Interchange
8 Penn Center
8th Floor
1628 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
Philadelphia PA 19103
Phone: (800) 222-NDRI (6374) (215) 557-7361
Fax: (215) 557-7154
Web: http://www.ndriresource.org/index.html
Our mission is to serve scientists with customized biomaterials for use in studies to understand human disease. Human cells, tissues, and organs are required to investigate how human disease progresses and to develop new drugs and therapies for treatments and cures.

Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
3rd Floor Maloney Building
3600 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 662-4708
Fax: (215) 349-5909
Web: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/cndr/index.html
The mission of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) is to conduct multidisciplinary clinical and basic research studies that increase understanding of the causes and mechanisms that increase understanding of the causes and mechanisms leading to brain dysfunction and degeneration in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Parkinson's Disease (PD), Motor Neuron Disease and other less common neurodegenerative disorders that also occur with more frequently with advancing age.

Brain Tissue Donation Program
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Translational Neuroscience Program
Department of Psychiatry
3811 O'Hara St.
Biomedical Science Tower W1650
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 624-7802
Web: http://www.tnp.pitt.edu/pages/donationpg_mb.htm
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh has established a brain tissue bank to which brain tissue can be donated at no expense.

TEXAS

The Alzheimer's Disease & Memory Disorder Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Neurology
6550 Fannon St.
Smith Tower #1801
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: (713)-798-6660
Fax: (703) 798-5326
Web: http://www.bcm.edu/neurology/admdc/
The ADMDC at Baylor participates in basic science research on Alzheimer's disease, in part, through the maintenance of a brain tissue donation program. The Brain Donation Autopsy Program is limited to those individuals who were diagnosed and followed as a patient or control subject of the Baylor Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center (ADMDC).

Alzheimer's Disease Center
Department of Neurology
Southwestern Medical Center
James W. Aston Ambulatory Care Center
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9170
Phone: (214) 648-9574
Web: http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept23589/files/46161.html
The Neuropathology Core, directed by Charles White, III, M.D. provides a comprehensive brain bank for tissue to be utilized for research purposes.

WASHINGTON

Pacific Northwest Dementia and Aging Neuropathology Group (PANDA)
Harborview Medical Center
Neuropathology
325 Ninth Avenue, Box359791
Seattle, Washington 98104
Phone: 206-731-6315
Fax: 206-731-8240
Web: http://www.pathology.washington.edu/clinical/neuropath/brainbank.php
PANDA is a collaborative effort between Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) in Portland, OR, and the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center in Seattle, WA. The goals of PANDA are twofold. First, we apply the most current structural and molecular criteria to the classification of neurodegenerative diseases so as to provide families of the deceased with contemporary, accurate diagnoses. Second, we procure and maintain donated tissue in optimal states for dissemination to scientists throughout the world.