About Us
Cole Torvick, Biorepository Supervisor
Mr. Torvick serves as the CRC Supervisor for the UC Davis Pathology Biorepository. He oversees regulating day-to-day operations, managing requests from internal and external collaborators, maintaining the internal specimen database, and ensuring excellence and compliance with CAP and UC Davis research and laboratory standards. He also assists with tissue and blood processing, data entry, subject consent, specimen storage and retrieval, and quality check and control of data entry.
Phone: 916-734-3026
Genella Cipar, MHA, CCRP
Ms. Cipar is a clinical research coordinator, and is on the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine’s Clinical Research Oversight Committee, or CROC. Ms. Cipar coordinates the review process of research protocols that require UC Davis Health pathology or laboratory services. She also assists the shared resource with tissue and blood processing, data entry, subject consent, specimen storage and retrieval, is backup personnel for research histology requests and performs quality checks of data entry.
Phone: 916-734-3026
Lab Assistants
The Biorepository is staffed with 2-3 lab assistants for specimen collection and distribution.