Director:
Vishala T. Neppalli, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology
Support Staff:
Julie Lang, Facility Coordinator
Joe Galbraith, Biospecimens Repository Specialist
Richard Rodgers, Research Assistant I
Core Facility Office:
373 MRC
Telephone: 319-353-3051
Purpose
The goal of the Tissue Procurement Core Facility is to make available human tumor tissue for current research studies and to store frozen human tumor tissue for current and future cancer research studies. The Core provides research infrastructure in the form of a well-characterized bank of frozen and, routinely processed, neoplastic and normal tissues suitable for molecular genetic, biochemical and pathological studies.
Guidelines for Obtaining Tissue
Investigators who are interested in obtaining human tissue samples from the Facility should begin by contacting our office at 319-353-3051 or julie-lang@uiowa.edu. You will be asked several questions regarding tissue type desired and requirements regarding specimen preservation (fresh, frozen, formalin fixed, etc.) to determine whether appropriate samples are presently stored in the procurement archives. If appropriate samples are not available and the request will require prospective collection of tissue samples, Vishala T. Neppalli, MD, the Facility Director, will contact you to discuss issues pertaining to feasibility of collection.
All requests for tissue will ultimately require submission of a completed application form and a signed usage agreement form (forms available from the Core Facility). Completed applications will be forwarded for review to the Tissue Utilization Committee. The Committee will recommend approval or disapproval. Priority will be given to those studies that are supported by peer reviewed funding or foster collaborative work.
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