Ordering and Licensing CPDM's Patient Derived Models (PDX, PDCL)
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Many of our patient derived models are available for both academia and industry users.
Options for Exploring and Ordering CPDM's Cancer Model Collection
- View summaries of our PDX/PDCL collections
- Email your model specifications to us at models@dfci.harvard.edu and we will send back our suggestions
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Submit your model request information using our model request form
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Register to access the CPDM Pan-Cancer Patient Derived Models cBioPortal database; browse the clinical/genomic data of these models and submit a model request.
Our cancer model request process is as follows:
- Explore model collection
- Submit model request
- CPDM confirms availability of model inventory and usage restriction
- Initiation of MTA process
- Payment and model shipment
See CPDM's SOPs for expanding and conducting studies with our models.
cBioPortal: A Genomic Data Portal for PDX and PDCL Models
This data portal hosts three distinct model collections of brain tumors, liquid tumors, and other solid tumors:
- Brain tumor PDX and PDCL (spheroid and organoid) models (manuscripts in preparation)
- Liquid tumor PDX models (Cancer Cell. 2016)
- Other solid tumor PDX models (Nat Med. 2015)
To see the list of our cancer models, please register to access the CPDM Pan-Cancer Patient Derived Models cBioPortal database. Once you receive a confirmation email from our team, please log in to Dana-Farber's private cBioPortal platform. See our User Guide for instructions for logging in and using CPDM's database.