UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
$3,109,793.58 CAD
- Department
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2024-2025
- Agreement period
- April 19, 2024 – March 31, 2027
- Competition
- Advance Contract Award Notice (non-competitive) · 1 bid received
- Reference
- phac-aspc:C-2024-2025-Q1-00163
Published purpose
Laboratory Services The objective of the requirement is to provide the Public Health Agency of Canada with laboratory-based services for neuropathologic examination and brain tissue banking to support diagnosis, national surveillance and research for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and related brain diseases in Canada. Specific activities include: performing cranial autopsies of suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients; collecting frozen and chemically preserved brain tissue specimens; receiving, storing and cataloguing brain tissue specimens from external laboratories; conducting detailed postmortem examination of brain tissues; preparing diagnostic neuropathology reports authorized by a neuropathologist; and maintaining a bank of donated brain tissue specimens for research purposes.
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