The Population Sciences Biorepository (PSB) was created to support a high-quality molecular epidemiology program in the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center and across Baylor College of Medicine. We also serve as a scientific resource for investigators on biospecimen collection and storage methods in their efforts to discover etiologic risk factors and deliver personalized medicine.
Our goal is to provide necessary risk factor and clinical data collection and a centralized, cost-effective facility for biospecimen processing and storage of biospecimens from large epidemiological and clinical studies. The PSB provides services for individually funded investigators as well as for clinical centers wishing to bank specimens prospectively from their patients for future research projects. The PSB clinical coordinators can assist with consenting, phlebotomy, and data collection, if needed. The PSB Laboratory provides full fractionation and aliquoting for blood and urine samples, as well as DNA extraction from whole blood, buffy coat, or saliva. Our team can consult with you to plan the data and specimen collection and storage needs for your projects.

The PSB has an ongoing recruitment protocol that recruits patients with the diagnoses listed in the table below. If you would like to develop a project using these samples, please contact the PSB director to learn about availability and the process for accessing these specimens.