The Biospecimen and Clinical Data Acquisition Core facilitates the coordinated collection, processing, storage, and distribution of biospecimens and clinical data from patients with a broad representation of diseases of the nervous system. This Core:

• Initiates the collection of biospecimens and associated clinical data from patient populations where little support currently exists.
• Catalyzes the integration of several large, pre-existing bio-repositories and clinical databases of nervous system disease patients.
• Makes accessible an inventory of available biospecimen resources and de-identified data that can be queried by authorized intramural and extramural neuroscience investigators.

Facilities/Services

The Biospecimen and Clinical Data Acquisition Core makes extensive use of infrastructure already present at our institution by extending and integrating several existing resources:

• Clinic Environment for Recruitment, Consent, and Clinical Data Collection
• NeuroClinical Research Unit (NCRU)
• Clinical and Research Data Management
• IRB and Consent
• Recruitment
• Clinical Data Entry

Staff/Contacts

• This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , Core Director
• This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , Co-Director
• Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D. Co-Investigator
• Johanna Hartlein, RN, MSN, APN
• Mala Sharma, B.S., Research Technician
• Laura Carpenter
• Cassie Keppel

Support/Acknowledgements

This core is supported by NIH Neuroscience Blueprint Core Grant P30 NS057105 to Washington University.