This will acknowledge your responsibility in understanding of and adherence to appropriate safety standards for the protection of yourself and other laboratory personnel under your supervision while handling human postmortem brain tissue. Read and sign the Human Tissue Single User Agreement. This will acknowledge your responsibility in not distributing any portion of the tissue disbursement to colleagues or other investigators, and that all such inquires will be directed to the CNTN Director. Read and sign the CNTN Acknowledgment Agreement. This will indicate that you have agreed to provide specific acknowledgment of the California NeuroAIDS Tissue Network and its Federal grant number in any publications related to the use of these tissues.
All requests undergo a review process in the order which they are received.
Upon approval, the tissue order will be shipped to your laboratory as such samples become available to the Tissue Network. The Tissue Network charges no fee for providing this service. The cost for shipping, however, will be assumed by the recipient. We ship by Federal Express, and we do require that you provide us with your FedEx account number. Please feel free to contact me regarding the status of your request for tissue or with any other questions you may have.