@article{0de04987639d4bfd91cb2e5c1b5dedb8,
title = "AIDS and cancer specimen resource (ACSR)",
abstract = "The AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) has four regional biorepositories (RBRs) in the United States and one in South Africa. The ACSR is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (United States) to support investigators studying HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-associated malignancies. The ACSR inventory includes more than 450,000 annotated HIV-positive biospecimens from over 10,000 individuals and 100,000 HIV-negative controls from approximately 4,250 individuals, reflecting the pre-highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and post-HAART era of the HIV epidemic, as well as selected geographic regions heavily impacted by this global pandemic.",
keywords = "AIDS, AIDS-related malignancies, Biobanking, Biological samples, HIV, Non-AIDS-related malignancies, Tissue Microarrays",
author = "Sylvia Silver and Jeffrey Bethony and Paige Bracci and Patel, {Ashokkumar A.} and Mostafa Nokta and Michael Ittmann and Lisa Rimsza and Johann Schneider and Michael McGrath",
note = "Funding Information: Keywords: Biobanking; biological samples; HIV; AIDS; AIDS-related malignancies; non-AIDS-related malignancies; Tissue Microarrays Funding statement: The U.S. NIH National Cancer Institute has funded the ACSR since 1994. The present award is UM1CA181255. Funding Information: The AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) has four regional biorepositories (RBRs) in the United States and one in South Africa. The ACSR is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (United States) to support investigators studying HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-associated malignancies. The ACSR inventory includes more than 450,000 annotated HIV-positive biospecimens from over 10,000 individuals and 100,000 HIV-negative controls from approximately 4,250 individuals, reflecting the pre-highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and post-HAART era of the HIV epidemic, as well as selected geographic regions heavily impacted by this global pandemic. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.5334/OJB.42",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "5",
journal = "Open Journal of Bioresources",
issn = "2056-5542",
publisher = "Ubiquity Press",
}