CLC Laboratory 

The CLC laboratory, led by CADRE Clinical Laboratory Core Director Dr. Jennifer Tidey, is located on the 3^rd floor of Brown University’s School of Public Health building in downtown Providence, RI, which is easily reached by public transportation. The 4800 ft² laboratory suite is secured with code-protected key-card access provided to researchers and staff conducting work in this space. The laboratory suite contains 18 participant observation rooms, a room equipped for conducting physical examinations, a workroom for preparing and storing biological samples, a waiting area, and a restroom for collecting urine samples.

The laboratory prep room/workroom contains centrifuges for sample preparation, an Ella immunoassay system, a biosafety cabinet, and refrigerators and freezers (-20 and -80) for storing biological samples. The -80 freezers are equipped with remote monitors that record temperature every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and notify Dr. Tidey and her staff when the temperature falls outside of a pre-set range. The workroom is ventilated with single-pass air so that blood samples can be processed within a biosafety cabinet in this room, per the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens standard (CFR 1910.1030).