Children’s National is a member of the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (CBTTC), a multi-institutional consortium that banks brain tumor specimens, including blood, buccal swabs, cerebrospinal fluid and urine, to be accessed by the pediatric brain tumor research community. Each specimen is annotated with clinical data in a continuously updated database. In addition, large data sets resulting from genomic, epigenomic and proteomic studies of those specimens are housed within the consortium in a computing environment that allows native analysis in the cloud. The CBTTC data repository, called CAVATICA, is the largest such repository in the world.
Gift From a Child Initiative
Families have the ability to directly support and advance pediatric brain tumor research. As a member of the Gift from a Child initiative, our post-mortem tissue donation team helps families through this decision making process and provides them with the opportunity to impact the future of childhood brain cancer treatments. For inquiries, please contact Augustine Eze or Javad Nazarian, Ph.D., M.Sc.
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