This includes two major activities, which include both focused prospective collection and processing of  human tissues and use of valuable surgical pathology and clinical data:

1 - Collection of tissues for IRB-approved research projects

• Obtain specimens:
  • Storage and retrieval of specimens
  • For multi institutional protocols and clinical trials, transfer specimens to central study facility
• Fresh tissue acquisition (without storage) for tissue culture to be performed by the requesting investigator
• Mononuclear cell separation and cryopreservation from bone marrow and/or peripheral blood specimens
• Frozen OCT embedded tissue sections for to be performed by the requesting investigator

2 - Assist in obtaining informed consents for IRB approved protocols for tissue acquisition