BioRepository Sample Storage and Processing Facilities

Meet our experienced team

The BioRepository has provided research support for studies and trials since 2017. Our Laboratory team, based in the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, operates the most advanced automated systems for retrieving and arraying biological material for biomarker applications, as well as cost-effective solutions for DNA extractions and Quality Control.

**Steve Knighton**
Sample Facilities Manager

**Vasileios Kaimakis**
Senior Laboratories Manager

**Natalia Piaszczyk**
Biorepository Manager

Our set-up and services

The latest facilities and all-in-one sample management

Based in the Cambridge Research Park, our Sample Management team offer rapid turnaround time for sample reception and retrieval. Recently, the BioRepository expanded its sample storage facility with our new Nordic ULT Freezer System, which provides:

100% backup for safer sample storage
24/7 monitoring and telemetry
significant energy saving and carbon footprint reduction.

As well as our -80°C storage, our -20°C room and liquid nitrogen tanks can accommodate any sample type.

Sample storage

Nordics ULT freezers (-80ºC)
-20ºC cold room
LN tanks
automated +4ºC storage

Sample processing

Blood fractionation
PBMC isolation
Sample aliquoting (2D barcoded tubes or 96-well plates)
DNA extraction and normalisation

Sample logistics

Sample pack preparation and dispatch
Sample retrieval and dispatch
Sample auditing

HTA Licenced

All our facilities operate under a Human Tissue Act license and use a LabVantage Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to track every sample journey.

Let us quote for you

Pricing will vary depending on the size and complexity of your sample set or the frequency of sample delivery and retrieval. Please get in touch for a quote.