The Heart Center Tissue Bank (HCTB) at Texas Children’s Hospital is the largest pediatric tissue bank in the Texas Medical Center and houses a variety of tissue samples of patients with congenital heart defects. Our mission is to advance the research of congenital heart defects by fostering research collaborations with investigators not only within Texas Children’s Hospital, but globally.

Heart Center Tissue Bank (HCTB) prospectively collects and banks surgical samples obtained from patients undergoing surgical treatment for congenital or acquired heart defects as an infrastructure for the advancement of basic and translational research in pediatrics.