WELCOME TO THE CHTN

The Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN) has been providing biospecimens to the research community for over 20 years and will continue to serve quality biospecimens to IRB-approved researchers for many more.

The purpose of the CHTN is to stimulate, for the good of the public, cooperative efforts to collect and distribute human biospecimens to facilitate research. These activities are expected to encourage basic and developmental studies in many areas of cancer and non-cancer research, including molecular biology, immunology and genetics. The CHTN is not intended as a human biospecimen bank but may use limited banking as needed to meet specific requests and longer term banking of targeted specimens to assure availability of rare materials.

Specific questions about the CHTN may be directed to your regional coordinator or Rodrigo Chuaqui, M.D., NCI Program Director, at (301) 496-7147.