September 30, 2021 -- The National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI) will lead collaborators on a five-year $12.5 million development project to establish a new center as part of the U.S. government's Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) initiative.
NDRI and its collaborators will establish a pediatric biospecimen procurement center to support the advancement of dGTEx, a federally funded initiative to establish a resource database and associated tissue bank to study gene expression patterns in multiple reference tissues during human developmental stages.
NDRI's collaborators include the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Maryland's department of pediatrics, and Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.
NDRI is a liaison between procurement sources and the research community. The organization operates 24/7 and partners with a nationwide network of over 130 tissue source sites, including organ procurement organizations, tissue banks, eye banks, and hospitals.
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