Overview

The UM Brain Bank is a biorepository and a clinical resource for human brain tissue with core funding provided by The Brain Endowment Bank.  For over 20 years, we have been committed to providing the scientific community with brain tissues necessary to investigate the progression of neurological diseases with the hope of developing pharmaceutical treatments and finding cures. The staff at the Brain Bank is dedicated to providing healthy control matched to diseased tissue to approved researchers. We attempt to fulfill protocol requirements as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Ethical procedures including donor anonymity are assured.  All brain tissue is procured, stored, and distributed according to applicable regulations and guidelines involving consent, protection of human subjects and donor anonymity.

UM Brain Bank may direct you to other brain bank collections that are not available in your immediate area.

We request that all published scientific articles and monographs acknowledge that brain tissues were obtained from the Brain Endowment Bank.