TISSUE REQUEST GUIDELINES

Neuroscience investigators are invited to apply for brain tissue obtained from autistic subjects and/or their relatives to advance biomedical research in autism.

Investigator Request for Brain Tissue

For tissue request guidelines and application information please visit www.atpportal.org.

The Autism Tissue Program (ATP) was established:

1) to promote national awareness of the importance of brain tissue donation for the purpose of autism biomedical research

2) to maintain a central database of registrants and available tissue

3) to review requests for tissue and distribute tissue through its Tissue Advisory Board (TAB)

4) to promote information exchange among researchers through the TAB

5) to inform the autism community of research progress and findings.

The TAB has the responsibility, in addition to defining optimal brain bank collection protocols, including retrieval, sectioning and storage, to review applications for tissue and advise on tissue distribution based on both the scientific merit of the proposed research and the potential of the research to contribute to the further understanding of autism. Requests for tissue should reflect those goals.

Researchers receiving tissue, who also have autism tissue or control tissue, are encouraged to make that material available to other investigators using ATP tissue whenever possible.

Contact Coordinator, Jane Pickett, Ph..D. 1-877-333-0999 or e-mail: atp@brainbank.org for

• information about autism and control case availability
• case documentation; ADI-R raw data
• research in progress
• MRI files