RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Monday, a Kryosphere truck loaded with freezers and a streaming liquid nitrogen tank pulled out of the company’s RTP headquarters bound for Dallas, Texas. By the end of the week, the truck will return with the critical samples of a top doctor-scientist relocating to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kryosphere Inc., the region’s first independent biorepository, has begun its unique “escort service” for a world-renown physician scientist arriving this summer from the University of Texas to join the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill.

He brings the biosamples from his own research, but the actual freezers that housed them were the property of the medical center he left.

“He called us to move his critical samples,” says Eric Hallman, president of Kryosphere. “There’s no one else who can move them and assure their integrity.”

Kryosphere, with headquarters in Research Triangle Park, moves irreplaceable research samples under its cold-chain-of-custody system that is unlike anyone else’s in the Southeast.
With all of our state’s scientific companies and major universities, we attract big names in research.

Those “big names” are likely to arrive with research studies underway. If involved in any number of biological or medical fields, these studies include actual biospecimens – tissue, blood, urine, etc. – that are most often, frozen.

Kryosphere provides a way to get those samples to their new RTP home in a temperature controlled environment.

Online: www.kryosphere.com

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