CTL manages MTAs for all outgoing transfers of tangible research materials (TRMs), including those from Cornell’s Ithaca campus, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech, and Cornell AgriTech, to organizations outside of Cornell. To initiate an outgoing MTA please download and complete this form and email it to mta-ctl@cornell.edu. For assistance or more information about Material Transfers, contact the general inbox at mta-ctl@cornell.edu with any questions or concerns.
Outgoing Transfers
If you wish to explore the possibility of an outgoing transfer with minimal to no involvement of CTL, please click here.
Repositories
CTL uses repositories for materials that are protected by patents. Additionally, repositories for materials can be used if the researchers would rather use a third party to manage the maintenance and shipment of materials developed in their research. Repositories will provide services at a charge to Cornell. CTL has approved the repositories listed below for specific purposes, and the use of such repositories must be authorized for the purposes of material transfer of patented material and other materials.
- ADDGENE
Repository for plasmids. - Agriculture Research Service Culture Collection (NRRL)
Repository for microorganisms. - BCCM
Repository for microorganisms. - bei Resources
Repository for microorganisms and reagents for infectious disease research. - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Repository for plant tissue, plant seed, algae, microbes, and marine viruses, and an authorized International Depository Authority (IDA) for patent deposit procedure. - CellBank Australia
Repository for cell lines and hybridomas. - Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank
NIH-funded repository for all kinds of hybridomas. - DSMZ (Leibniz Institute)
Repository for microorganisms and cell cultures. - Jackson Labs
Repository for small laboratory animals, including transgenic rodents. - National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS)
