# Biospecimens Accessioning and Processing Shared Resource

> **NIH NIH P30** · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · 2021 · $131,884

## Abstract

BIOSPECIMENS ACCESSIONING AND PROCESSING SHARED RESOURCE PROJECT SUMMARY
The Mayo Clinic research enterprise includes several well-established, NIH-supported research programs and
centers, including the NCI-designated comprehensive Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (MCCC) and the Mayo Clinic
Center for Individualized Medicine (CIM) whose goal is to move advances in genomics, epigenomics,
transcriptomics, and metabolomics into the clinic as rapidly as possible. The Biorepository Program, 1 of the 7
infrastructure programs overseen by CIM, is enterprise-wide, with all activities represented at Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Mayo Clinic Florida, and Mayo Clinic Arizona. The mission of the Biorepository Program is to
provide world-class biorepositories and state-of-the-art biospecimen processing and storage with a focus on
quality and service. The Biorepository Program's Biospecimens Accessioning and Processing (BAP) laboratory
provides pre-analytical processing and storage of any type of biospecimen to support the eventual translation
of scientific discoveries into clinical practice. In addition to its role as an MCCC Shared Resource, BAP
provides extensive support to a number of cancer-related Specialized Programs of Research Excellence
(SPOREs); clinical trial groups, such Alliance and Academic and Community Cancer Research United
(ACCRU); multisite/consortium groups; and the American Cancer Society. BAP's electronic biospecimen
accessioning and tracking, combined with a broad range of specimen processing services, have created a very
powerful, synergistic resource that is invaluable for supporting the Basic Science, Clinical and Translational
Research and Population Sciences Programs of the MCCC. BAP is also a great biospecimen resource for
MCCC members. There are 2 large cohorts that the BAP lab stores in the biorepository: 1) The Mayo Clinic
Biobank is an institutional resource that contains biological specimens from 50,000 volunteers from our clinics
who also provided self-reported risk-factor data, access to the clinical data in their medical records, and
consent to participate in unspecified research studies. Today, over 1.25 million aliquots have been prepared
and stored in a robotic freezer for future use. Data and specimens have been requested by close to 90 Mayo
Clinic investigators from all 3 sites for more than 200 approved projects. On average, two-thirds of the PIs
requesting specimens are MCCC members; 2) The All of Us Research Program Biobank is an NIH Precision
Medicine Initiative; in 2016, BAP was tapped to be the central biobank for processing and storing
biospecimens from 1 million participants. The 34 million specimens, together with their corresponding data, will
be another good resource for the research of MCCC members. This award, together with institutional support,
has allowed BAP to expand in capacity, capability, automation, and space, which will be a great benefit to
MCCC members.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10113588
- **Project number:** 5P30CA015083-47
- **Recipient organization:** MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Mine Cicek
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $131,884
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-25 → 2024-02-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10113588

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10113588, Biospecimens Accessioning and Processing Shared Resource (5P30CA015083-47). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10113588. Licensed CC0.

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