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1. Clinical &
Translational
CTSI-CRS Sample Processing Core Laboratories
Sciences Wendy Staub, Lab Manager
Institute wendy.staub@ucsf.edu 415-794-6460
UCSF
CTSI Clinical Research Services
The CTSI-CRS Sample
Moffitt Moffitt Mt. Zion San Francisco Tenderloin
Processing Core Hospital Adult Hospital Hospital General Research
Pediatrics & Hospital Center
Laboratories perform NCRC
Specimen aliquoting     
specimen processing,
sample storage, and Serum/plasma     
separation
shipping for more than Buffy coat isolation     
Addition of protease     
200 clinical studies. inhibitors, etc.
Blood smear     
Our services are preparations
Shipping     
available to all UCSF Short-term storage    
faculty, residents, and (3 months max.)
PBMC isolation  
research fellows. EBV transformation   Labeling, Set-up
of B cells
Cryopreservation of  
cells
We have five Cell staining for flow  
cytometry Shipping Processing
laboratories located at: Point-of-care testing 
(rapid HIV, rapid
• Moffitt Hospital, Adult HCV)
• Moffitt Hospital, More than 45,000 samples processed in 2011 Storage, Inventory
Pediatrics
• Mt. Zion Hospital
• SFGH
• Tenderloin Research
Clinic
Sample types:
• Blood
• Urine
• Saliva
• Amniotic Fluid
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Mt. Zion Lab Transfer pipettes
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