Today’s remote research sites pose a challenge — but Cerba means certainty
Avoid the risk of lengthy transport and preserve your irreplaceable clinical trial samples in one of our strategically located, state-of-the-art storage facilities.
To meet increasingly stringent regulations and your research commitments, all Cerba Research global storage sites feature:
- Temperatures from ambient to -80° C, with available liquid nitrogen
- Short- and long-term sample storage
- Electronic barcoded sample tracking
- QC of all shipments in and out
- Qualified staff
- Dedicated receiving, storage, retrieval, and shipment areas
- Shipping performed to IATA standards
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Tissue Solutions
Cerba Research is proud to offer custom tissue sourcing solutions and off-the-shelf collections.
Biospecimen Solutions
Discover our remnant samples and bespoke prospective samples collection solutions.
South Africa
Our leading-edge biobank in South Africa, launched in 2009, is one of the largest biobanking facilities in the southern hemisphere. Store your samples here and benefit from:
- World-class extraction facility
- Nationally and globally accredited storage of clinical samples for over 13 diseases
- Capacity for over 7 million clinical samples, including 6.4 million at -80° C
- 760,000 in the liquid nitrogen vapor phase
- Ideal storage conditions, including for samples to be preserved in perpetuity
- Temperatures include:
- Ambient (20° C to 30° C)
- Refrigerated (2° C to 8° C)
- Frozen (-20° C, -80° C and -196° C)
- Routine relabelling, anonymization, de-identification, and un-blinding services
- Shipping performed to IATA standards
- 24/7 FDA-approved independent system that ensures real-time continual monitoring of temperature, liquid and oxygen levels, and related equipment performance parameters; parameters electronically documented with SMS notification via two independent service providers to the standby staff in case of error
Reach out to our experts and see how we can help advance your clinical trial