Scheduled participant visits
We coordinate appointment times around the collection windows required by your study.
Research & clinical studies
Mobile specimen collection for research & clinical studies
We help research teams coordinate blood draws and specimen collections at participants' homes, approved locations, or study sites throughout the Portland area. Whether your study uses mobile visits, a combination of onsite and mobile visits, or scheduled collections at a research site, we work with your team to follow the approved collection instructions.
Participant-centered collection
Bring study collections closer to participants
When your study allows mobile collection, we can visit participants at home or another approved location within our service area. Your study team provides the collection requirements, and we coordinate visits around those instructions.
Protocol-directed collection
Collections follow the written instructions approved for your study.
Study-specific preparation
Before collections begin, assigned personnel review the study's collection, kit, processing, and handling requirements.
Specimen coordination
We coordinate the processing, packaging, delivery, or shipment requirements included in the approved program.
Who we support
Built for research teams
We work with research organizations to determine whether their study's collection needs, participant locations, and handling requirements fit the services we can support.
Clinical research sites and study coordinators
Contract research organizations (CROs)
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations
Academic and investigator-led research programs
Protocol first
Built around your study protocol
Your study team establishes the protocol, collection schedule, and clinical requirements. We review the written instructions and work with your team to plan the collection, specimen handling, documentation, and delivery services we can safely support.
Your study team defines the protocol, clinical requirements, and collection schedule. Stumptown provides the collection and handling services agreed for the program. We do not design research protocols or act as the study sponsor, investigator, or performing laboratory.
- Protocol-directed collection procedures and visit windows
- Timed or serial collection schedules supplied by the study team
- Study- or kit-specific collection and handling instructions
- Processing requirements approved for the program
- Required preparation, labeling, and completion notes
- Designated laboratory, provider, or test-kit workflow
- Coordinator communication pathways
- Personnel preparation for the approved workflow
Program planning
How we set up research collections
Before accepting a study, we review its requirements, locations, scheduling needs, staffing, and specimen-handling instructions to confirm that we can support the program.
Step 1
Tell us about your study
Share your study's collection requirements, participant locations, expected number of visits, collection schedule, and any test-kit or specimen-handling instructions. Please do not include participant names or health information.
Step 2
We review the requirements
Our team reviews the collection procedures, timing, processing, transport, documentation, and personnel needs to determine whether the program fits our capabilities.
Step 3
Confirm the collection plan
If we can support your study, we work with your team to confirm the service scope, pricing, scheduling, collection instructions, and communication plan before visits begin.
Step 4
Participant collections begin
Our team carries out scheduled collections according to the approved workflow and study requirements.
Collection and handling
Collection & specimen-handling capabilities
We review the collection, processing, storage, and transport requirements for each study before accepting the work. Available services depend on the written program scope and the equipment, staffing, and transport arrangements we can confirm for that study.
Venous blood collection
Blood collection using the tube types and draw order specified by the protocol, order, or designated laboratory.
Timed & serial collections
Single or multiple collections coordinated around written study-defined times or intervals.
Centrifugation
Centrifugation when required by the laboratory, kit, or study protocol and supported by the collection workflow.
Aliquoting
Transferring part of a prepared sample into another tube or vial when required.
Refrigerated handling
Refrigerated handling when required by the study instructions and supported by the agreed storage and transport arrangements.
Frozen handling
Frozen handling only when the approved protocol requires it and equipment, temperature monitoring, storage, and transport capability have been verified for the written program scope.
Specialty test-kit processing
Completing the preparation steps required by a specialty test kit before shipment.
Packaging
Packaging samples according to laboratory or test-kit instructions.
Delivery to the designated laboratory or provider
Delivering eligible samples to the designated local laboratory or provider location.
Shipment per kit instructions
Shipment according to approved kit or study instructions when supported by the collection workflow.
Stumptown collects, prepares, and transports research specimens within the agreed program scope. The designated laboratory performs laboratory analysis, and the laboratory and study team manage study results. Stumptown does not interpret or report study results.
Participant experience
A more convenient collection experience for participants
Collection at an approved location
Participants can have samples collected at home or another approved location when their study permits mobile visits.
Scheduled appointment times
Visits are arranged around the study's required collection times and the participant's schedule.
Professional collection
Trained collection professionals follow the approved study instructions and collection procedures.
Less travel for participants
Mobile visits can reduce the need for participants to travel to a research site solely for specimen collection.
Service area
Portland-region research collection support
We provide mobile specimen collection throughout our established Portland-region service area. Before scheduling a study, we review participant locations, travel requirements, specimen stability, and delivery or shipping needs to confirm that the collection plan is workable.
Research inquiry
Discuss a research program
Tell us about your study's collection needs, participant locations, scheduling requirements, and specimen handling. We'll review the details with your team to determine whether Stumptown can support the program.
Submitting an inquiry starts our review. It does not create an agreement, confirm a research program, or schedule participant appointments.
Research programs are quoted individually based on collection locations, participant volume, visit frequency, scheduling, and specimen-processing and transport requirements.
Related: timed & serial collections and mobile specimen collection.
Tell us about your study.
Research collection support is tailored to the study's approved operational requirements and Stumptown's service area.