Investigator Proposal Form and Instructions

Your proposal can be sent via e-mail (ltcds@umn.edu) or fax (612-626-0639).  You will be required to provide to our office updated information on a quarterly basis to include any specimen requirement changes, publications resulting from specimens obtained through LTCDS, etc. 

 Should your institution require it, please provide us with a purchase order number prior to shipment of tissues or hepatocytes. 

 In publications where tissues or hepatocytes were provided by the Liver Tissue Cell Distribution System, please reference NIH Contract #N01-DK-7-0004 / HHSN267200700004C. 

 A sample sentence is provided below:

 [Normal human liver] [Pathologic human liver] [Normal human hepatocytes] was/were obtained through the Liver Tissue Cell Distribution System,  [Minneapolis, Minnesota] [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] [Richmond, Virginia], which was funded by  NIH Contract #N01-DK-7-0004 / HHSN267200700004C.

 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our office at 612-624-1998.

 Click to download the Investigator Proposal Form