All Department of Surgery researchers have an in-house resource available for tissue banking. The Children’s Surgery Biobank (CSB) is an experienced tissue banking resource set up for surgery researchers interested in banking tissue specimens for their specific research projects in collaboration with the Texas Children’s Research Tissue Support Services. The biobank is supported by the Texas Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery.
The CSB provides services for consenting, tissue collection, banking and database management. The biobank can store blood (for DNA, plasma and serum), urine, tissue and other biofluid specimens, along with fully annotated clinical and phenotypic data from patients undergoing surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital.
This central repository was developed to save surgery researchers time and effort in collecting and storing specimens. It also serves as an important means of tracking research samples across all divisions of surgery, helping to accelerate pediatric research and to promote collaborations within and outside the institution.
For information on the program or protocols around tissue banking, contact Dr. Lalita Wadhwa at lxwadhwa@texaschildrens.org.