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Infrastructure

Through NIH infrastructure funds, NIH grants and institutional funds, the ACI Biorepository has greatly expanded and updated the physical infrastructure available to support the Biorepository mission.  The current infrastructure includes:

Laboratory Space:  Over 2,000 sq. ft. laboratory support space, including space dedicated to logistics of sample receiving/shipping, BSL-2 level tissue culture space and bio-safety containment centrifuges, controlled rate cryostorage equipment, nucleic acid isolation/QC equipment in dedicated “Pre-PCR” space, with point-of-use workstations, bar-code printers, scanners  for data entry into ADIDS during the sample processing workflows.

Mechanical Cryostorage:

1.Over 2,500 cu. ft. -80˚C, fully racked, triple-redundant mechanical and liquid nitrogen cooling systems, storage vaults in a highly secured (key-card access, monitored) facility.

2.Over 7,000 cu. ft. -20˚C, fully racked, double-redundant mechanical cooling with 24/7 emergency business continuity contingency agreements with local cold-storage/trucking company for on-site freezer trucks if needed.

Liquid Nitrogen Freezer Cryostorage Suite:   Capacity for over 220,000 vials of viable cells/tissue, expandable to over 750,000 vials.  Suite is highly secured with monitored key-card access, oxygen monitors and back-up LN2 is on-site.

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