Mantle Cell Lymphoma Cell Bank

The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF), in collaboration with American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), has recently created a Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) Cell Bank.  The Cell Bank is a collection of various MCL lines created by scientists from all over the world.  The idea for the Cell Bank was generated by the scientists that make up the MCL Consortium (MCLC).  It was created to provide a single, centralized location where scientists can easily acquire high-quality, well-characterized MCL cell lines in an effort to accelerate discoveries in MCL.

LRF is currently in the process of acquiring 15 different MCL cell lines.  In the table below you will find a listing of the cell lines currently available in the Cell Bank, along with their originators, as well as those cell lines that will be available soon.  As additional cell lines become available they will be added to the Cell Bank.

The Cell Bank is chaired by Dr. Owen O'Connor of Columbia University and is housed at ATCC, the world's largest biological resource center and the most comprehensive source of reference cultures and reagents used by researchers in the academic and industry laboratories.  The Cell Bank was made possible by the scientists who generously agreed to share their resources, including, Dr. Elias Campo, Dr. Richard Ford, and Dr. Junia Melo.

To order cells from the Cell Bank, scientists can go to: www.atcc.org