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
South Africa (BARC SA)
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
- 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
- Ambient (20° C to 30° C)
- Refrigerated (2° C to 8° C)
- Frozen (-20° C, -80° C and -196° C)
- Routine relabeling, 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
