ARIZONA BIOSPECIMEN LOCATOR

The Arizona Biospecimen Locator is a biospecimen database that presents the biospecimens collected which are available for acquisition and use by research... The Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC) is a collaboration between biorepositories located at three Arizona-based hospitals: St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix Children's Hospital, and Maricopa Integrated Health System. Funded by the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission (ABRC), a bureau of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), the goal in creating this consortium was to centralize and coordinate the individual efforts of the human biospecimen biobanks in the Phoenix area to raise the visibility and use of the collected samples in the basic and translational research community. The ABC member hospitals' biorepositories contain tens of thousands of cell, tissue, and blood samples, many of which are from specialized ethnic populations (e.g., Hispanic or Native American), age populations (e.g., children)..

Also known as: Arizona Biomedical Research Commission (ABRC), Arizona Biospecimen Consortium