CTQA Accreditations and Affiliations
The CTQA Department provides essential support to ensure proper accreditation by all appropriate agencies, including the following:
- Accreditation by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) — the non-profit corporation establishing standards for high-quality medical and laboratory practice in cellular therapies — for:
- Accreditation by the Joint Commission (JC) for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Accreditation of Dana-Farber's Connell and O'Reilly Families Cell Manipulation Core Facility (CMCF) by the JC; by FACT for cellular therapy product processing with more than minimal manipulation; and by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Certificate of Accreditation for laboratory testing
- The CMCF is also registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a manufacturer of both routine and novel cellular products.
Professional Organizations
- American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
- American Society for Apheresis (ASFA)
- American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
- American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)
- American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
- American Society for Clinical Pathology
- American Society for Quality
- College of American Pathologists (CAP)
- ICCBA - ISBT 128 Labeling
- Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT)
- Joint Commission (JC)
- NMDP
- Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society