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Typical kinds of collaboration

In collaboration with commercial tissue repositories, medical centers are typically asked:

• to collect tissue and track clinical information
• to provide an informed consent process for donors
• to provide anonymous tissue samples
• to provide unlinked samples
• to provide linked samples for prospective studies

In return, repositories typically offer medical centers some of the following:

• financial support for pathology department
• financial support for consent nurses
• computer and laboratory equipment
• direct remuneration in the form of overhead, research grants, direct payments

The structure of the collaboration typically takes one of two forms:

• Tissue collection is a set of procedures and the medical center is, in part, a tissue collection site for a repository.
• Pathologists are considered Principal Investigators and enroll participants in a banking trial with reimbursement returning to the medical center based on number of trial participants.