# Biorepository Core

> **NIH NIH U19** · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · 2024 · $189,515

## Abstract

SUMMARY ACE Biorepository Core: Core Lead - Pascual, V.
The NIAID Autoimmunity Centers of Excellence (ACE) strives to create a cooperative network intended
to improve the understanding, prevention, and treatment of autoimmune disease. The goal of the ACE is
to conduct insightful analyses using cutting edge human immunology research tools with samples from
ACE Collaborative Centers, especially in the context of Clinical Projects, i.e., clinical trials with integrated
mechanistic studies. It is intended that members of both the basic and clinical ACE will work
synergistically to design, develop, and conduct studies on various autoimmune diagnoses in humans.
Toward this end, cumulative efforts from involved ACE sites will generate an invaluable set of samples
as a resource both for the proposed studies and future experimental questions. Thus, the necessary and
important mission of the ACE Biorepository Core (ABC) is to ensure that samples will be systematically
processed, catalogued and tracked, then appropriately stored and disseminated.
The ABC at WCM is organized as a collective effort with laboratories affiliated with each of the patient
enrollment sites to be determined by the ACE Steering Committee and NIAID. The ABC will operate
under a common set of standard operating procedures, a common data management system, and a
streamlined process for mechanistic laboratories to obtain samples to support experimental aspects of
the ACE Program. Frequent communication across ACE sites, the Steering Committee and NIAID will
ensure timely, accurate, precise and efficient sample coordination. The ABC at WCM will strive to uphold
the founding premise of the ACE Program that collaborations among basic and clinical scientists can
accelerate both fundamental and applied research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10845036
- **Project number:** 2U19AI144301-06
- **Recipient organization:** WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV
- **Principal Investigator:** Maria Virginia Pascual
- **Activity code:** U19 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $189,515
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2019-05-01 → 2029-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10845036

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10845036, Biorepository Core (2U19AI144301-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10845036. Licensed CC0.

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