Material Transfer Agreements
Sending Human Biospecimens to External Collaborators
Outside entities wishing to access human biospecimens maintained or collected at JHM may only do so pursuant to a research collaboration with JHM researchers that is documented in a research agreement or MTA. If the biospecimens are collected and transferred as part of a clinical trial agreement (CTA) and IRB-approved protocol, the CTA will include terms that address the transfer and use of the samples. For other transfers, a JHM Outbound Human Biospecimen Transfer Information Sheet should be completed and submitted to the JHM IRB following the processes found here.
The applicable JHM IRB guidance and JHM police are available here:
JHM IRB Guidance on Transferring Human Biospecimens
JHM Policy on Transferring Human Biospecimens to Outside Organizations
Routing MTAs to ORA
MTAs related to a funded research project should be routed to ORA via a Fibi record.
Please do not submit the same MTA request to both ORA and JHTV – this causes confusion and significant delays.