# Core Management

> **NIH NIH U42** · NATIONAL DISEASE RESEARCH INTERCHANGE · 2024 · $1,238,086

## Abstract

Program Director/Principal Investigator (Bell, Thomas, J):
Project Summary
The Human Tissue and Organ Research Resource (HTORR) is a division of the National Disease Research
Interchange (NDRI), a not-for-profit NIH-funded organization whose mission is to provide the biomedical
research community with human tissues for research. The requirements for human biospecimens continue to
evolve in tandem with complexity of scientific questions and experimental methodologies that investigators desire
to pursue. To meet this requirement, HTORR utilizes a project-specific approach and a diverse network of tissue
source sites (TSS) to provide investigators with the opportunity to obtain a broad range of normal and diseased
human biospecimens for their studies. HTORR’s expertise involves a five-pronged approach to creating a
reliable research resource to meet this emergent need for investigators. HTORR provides: 1) expert customer
service and 24/7 support for investigators, 2) a solution-oriented approach for investigators via the opportunity
to develop project-specific protocols for each project, 3) access to diverse range of human biospecimens from
all body systems, 4) ongoing outreach efforts via multiple platforms to increase awareness of the resource, and
5) industry best practices and standards regarding the donation of human tissue for research. Implementation
of this plan will ensure uninterrupted service of high quality, well annotated normal and diseased human
biospecimens to investigators from an established network of tissue source sites, in concert with the
development and implementation of innovative, large scale initiatives for the biomedical research community.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10906734
- **Project number:** 5U42OD011158-34
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL DISEASE RESEARCH INTERCHANGE
- **Principal Investigator:** Thomas J Bell
- **Activity code:** U42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1,238,086
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1989-01-09 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10906734

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10906734, Core Management (5U42OD011158-34). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10906734. Licensed CC0.

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