page_title: Department of Defense Serum Repository
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Department of Defense Serum Repository / Present DoDSR / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: Exterior of the commercial facility housing the Department of Defense Serum Repository, located at 11800 Tech Road, Silver Spring, Maryland
context_page_description: The Department of Defense Serum Repository is a biological repository operated by the United States Department of Defense containing over 50,000,000 human serum specimens, collected primarily from applicants to and members of the United States Uniformed Services.
  The DoDSR is located in Silver Spring, Maryland and is operated by the
  Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, a subordinate of the United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, itself evolved from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. The DoDSR traces its origins to 1985 and the beginnings of the United States Armed Forces HIV screening program, when serum remaining after periodic laboratory testing of service members was retained first by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, then later systematically archived in the Army/Navy Serum Repository, the precursor to the DoDSR.
  Today the DoDSR is among the largest serum repositories in the world, in terms of numbers of individuals represented, number of longitudinal specimens stored per individual, and total quantity of serum.
context_section_description: The DoDSR facility is located in 25,283 square feet (2,348.9 m²) of leased commercial space in a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m²) building located at 11800 Tech Road, Silver Spring, Maryland. The leased space was acquired through a ten-year lease managed by the General Services Administration (GSA) which expires October 1, 2010.
  The commercial facility is shared with two other major tenants: Holy Cross Hospital, and Comcast, whose continued occupancy precludes contiguous expansion of the DoDSR inventory. Due to space constraints at the existing facility, relocation of the DoDSR inventory to another location in the Baltimore - National Capital region (including Ft. Meade, Maryland) was considered as early as 2005.
caption: Exterior of the United States Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR), located at 11800 Tech Road, Silver Spring, MD.
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