Iranian Tissue Bank & Research Center (ITBRC) is the first and unique multi-facility tissue bank in country. ITBRC started its activity in 1994 with preparing of homograft heart valves. Then it expanded the activities and I.T.B is a multi tissue bank at this moment. From 1994 to 2006 we have procured more than 2700 tissues from Cadaveric donors. On March 3rd in 2009, a final approvment was received regarding the Research Center. Organ Procurement Unit (OPU) of this center is the first OPU in Iran which started its activities after approving the law of organ transplantation from brain death in Imam Khomeini Hospital in 2000. This unit is one of three OPU of Tehran University of Medical Sciences that covering a numbers of this university's hospitals in Tehran and also 10 provinces of surrounding province. This unit identifies, consents and transfers the brain death patient to this unit for recovering vital organs for transplantation.

ITBRC adheres to strict policies and procedures that were written according to guidelines and standards of EATB, AATB & FDA. All of the tissues are procured under aseptic conditions. Tissue processing is performed in our clean room facilities located in Imam Khomeini Hospital. The ITBRC try to provide the donated organs and processed tissue based on new technologies of tissue engineering and reconstructive medicine to meet the needs of patients at the national level.