Translational Research Central Services (TRCS)

 

The Translational Research Central Services provide a full spectrum of highly specialized, centralized services to support and meet the study-specific compliance requirements for the scheduling, procurement, processing, storage, shipping and data management of blood and tissue specimens collected from consented patients participating in therapeutic and correlative clinical trials.

 

The TRCS provides the following services at the JHH/East Baltimore Campus:

 

 

Develops and maintains Study Compliance Instructions (SCI) that serve as standardized study-specific procedures used by TRCS staff to ensure specimen collections, processing, storage, and shipping meet compliance.

Develops workflows for specimen procurement.

Interfaces with investigators and companies to carry out trials, including participating in SIVs, monitor visits and audits.

Provides clear instructions for the TRCS staff to ensure service quality is achieved

 

 

Receives and inventories vendor-supplied study kit components shipped to site.

Prepares and verifies study-specific, treatment timepoint-specific kit collection components and requisitions required for each patient visit

Maintains collection supplies to build study kits de novo upon request

Delivers and provides tracking of scheduled study kits to the appropriate Phlebotomy Clinics the day prior to the patient visit

Provides study teams with real-time, online inventory management (via internal barcoding system) of vendor-supplied kits to track quantities and expiration dates

Receives and delivers lab processing materials to the Central Processing Core, including those contained in vendor-supplied study kits

 

 

Centralized resource for the processing and shipment of research correlatives including Blood (whole blood, plasma, serum), Urine, and Bone Marrow from patients on research trials

Provides processing, batch-shipment storage, handling, tracking, and shipping services to ensure specimen integrity

Performs isolation and cryopreservation of viable peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)

Provides storage space and online inventory management (bar-coding) of all study provided processing and shipping supplies to track supply quantities and location

 

 

 

Online Research Visit Scheduling System to request study kit preparation/delivery to clinics; to request timepoint-specific research specimen collections, processing, storage/shipping, research EKGs, and/or research Vital Signs.

 

Appointments must be scheduled in the TRCS Research Scheduling System. For more information about TRCS Research appointment scheduling or to request access to the system, please email the TRCS Scheduling Team at TRCSResearchScheduling@jhmi.edu. Please note, CPC, IP, and CKS services cannot be requested via iLab (they must be scheduled in the TRCS Research Scheduling System). Requests for SCI services must be emailed to onc-eCOREs@jhmi.edu.