Please be sure to acknowledge us in your publications: University of Maryland School of Medicine’s & Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Pathology Biorepository Shared Services– Baltimore, Maryland. This publication was supported by funds through the Maryland Department of Health's Cigarette Restitution Fund Program and the National Cancer Institute - Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) - P30CA134274.
Pathology Biorepository Shared Service (PBSS) provides consistent excellence in the collection of high quality banked patient samples while maintaining patient confidentiality. PBSS also provides pathology, histology, and histotechnology consultation services to assist principal investigators in the procurement, analyses, and clinicopathologic correlation of human tissue specimens.
PBSS was established by the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center (UMGCC) in 2006 as a developing core. PBSS has both the unique advantage of the long-standing expertise gained under the well-established relationship with the NCI as well as the advantage of existing expertise and archives within the Pathology Department. PBSS is currently the only tissue bank shared service for specimens removed at surgery on the campus. We have an integrated relationship with the Anatomic Pathology Department, which is essential for obtaining high quality tissue samples as well as for pathology and histology expertise. The frozen tissue archives of PBSS consist of frozen tumor samples and associated paired normal tissue, frozen mononuclear cell isolates, plasma, and serum samples.
Contact Tom McHugh or Sanjay Uchil with any questions or issues experienced related to the use of this online system for ordering equipment time and services.
Olga Ioffe, MD
Director
oioffe@umaryland.edu
Paul Staats, MD
Co-Director
pstaats@umm.edu
Hours | Location |
8 am - 6 pm Monday - Friday |
Bressler Research Building, 7-016 655 West Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21201 |
Pleas acknowledge our core in your publications when appropriate in the format that follows: “University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Innovative Biomedical Resources, Pathology Biorepository Shared Services Core – Baltimore, Maryland.
To help us document the impact the core has on research at the University, please also alert the core when you publish data obtained in the core
Name | Role | Phone | Location | |
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Ashley Cellini, P.A. (ASCP) |
Director Clinical Business Operations
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410-706-2174
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acellini@som.umaryland.edu
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Kimberly Tuttle, H.T. (ASCP) |
Histotechnologist
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410-706-2174
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Ktuttle@som.umaryland.edu
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Service list |
► Cryosectioning (Frozen Sections) (1) | |||
Name | Description | Price | |
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H&E Stained Frozen Section (human) - price per slide | Inquire | ||
► Digital Imaging (Aperio Image Analysis and Capture) (2) | |||
Name | Description | Price | |
Aperio scanning 40X (single order >100 slides) - price per slide |
CORE USE ONLY |
Inquire | |
Aperio scanning 20X - price per slide | Inquire | ||
► Immunohistochemistry (IHC) (1) | |||
Name | Description | Price | |
Development & Titration of new Antibody - price per antibody | Inquire | ||
► Routine Services (15) | |||
Name | Description | Price | |
Embed block, no processing or slides; (Tissue received fresh/formalin) - price per unit | Inquire | ||
Frozen Peripheral Blood or Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cell Isolate | Inquire | ||
Fresh or Frozen Tissue Specimen - price per unit | Inquire | ||
Serum/Plasma aliquot - price per vial | Inquire | ||
Archived block and slide retrieval - (price per block/slide request) | Inquire | ||
Process and Embed block, no slides; (tissue received in cassette) - price per unit | Inquire | ||
Process and Embed block, no slides; (tissue rcvd fresh/formalin) - price per unit | Inquire | ||
Process and Embed with H&E Stained Paraffin Section - price per unit | Inquire | ||
H&E Stained Paraffin Section - price per slide | Inquire | ||
H&E Stained from Paraffin block - price per slide | Inquire | ||
Unstained Paraffin Section - price per slide | Inquire | ||
Double-thickness Unstained Paraffin Section (1st 10 µm) - price per slide | Inquire | ||
Double-thickness Unstained Paraffin Section (Addl 10 µm) - price per slide | Inquire | ||
Paraffin tissue roll - price per 10µm | Inquire | ||
Paraffin 2mm core - price per core | Inquire | ||
► Tissue Microarray (TMA) Services (2) | |||
Name | Description | Price | |
TMA slides from custom array (provided by researcher) - price per slide | Inquire | ||
TMA slides from existing PBSS TMA - price per slide | Inquire |