DEVELOPMENT OF ROOM-TEMPERATURE STORAGE TECHNIQUE FOR PLASMA/SERUM BIOSPECIMENS


Year of Award:
2012
Status:
Complete
Award Type:
R21
Project Number:
CA157298
RFA Number:
RFA-CA-12-004
Technology Track:
Biospecimen Science Technologies
PI/Project Leader:
AKSAN, ALPTEKIN
Other PI or Project Leader:
N/A
Institution:
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Currently, millions of serum biospecimens are being stored in biorepositories across the nation, while tens of thousands of new biospecimens are added to the pool daily. These biospecimens are stored for future research, mainly for proteinaceous biomarker