Facility Details

Biobank and Pathology Core provides resources for human biospecimen-based research to be used to study causes, detection, prevention, and treatment of cancer.Central facility for the collection, processing, storage, and distribution of fresh, frozen, and FFPE-processed human biospecimens (tissues, blood, bone marrow, urine, and other liquid samples) for research use. Core also serves as national resource, as evidenced by the several hundred samples from multiple tumor types that have been provided to the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and NCI’s CPTAC proteogenomic consortium. Histology Service within the Core facilitates selection of appropriate specimens for tissue analyses and provides the basic services of cutting, dissecting, and staining of fresh-frozen and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues. It includes construction of tissue microarray blocks and laser capture microdissection for isolation of pure cell populations and tumor cell enrichment. The Core’s Immunohistochemistry Service provides immunostaining using optimized antibodies for clinico-pathologic research studies.