Specimens and Services

Tissue

Fresh tissue (tumor and normal):

• Dispersed to researchers between 20 minutes and three hours after surgical removal
• After pathologic evaluation, specimens are kept refrigerated in RPMI media until pick-up
• To be notified when pre-op consent is obtained from patients with tumors at sites of interest, please call 916-734-3026

Frozen tissue (tumor and normal):

• Dispersed to researchers within five working days after UC Davis Path Biorepository Utilization Committee approval (when applicable)
• Frozen tissues are stored at -150 C in  a Panasonic cryogenic chest freezer in DNAase- and RNAase-free sterile vials

Biological fluids

Bone marrow aspirates:

• Dispersed to researchers within five working days
• Frozen at -70°C in DNAase- and RNAase-free sterile vials in a protective freezing solution to ensure cell viability

Serum and plasma:

• Dispersed to researchers within five working days
• Dispersed in 0.5 milliliter aliquots
• Coded specimens are stored at -70°C in sterile DNAase- and RNAase-free cryovials

Whole blood (pre- and post-op):

• Dispersed to researchers within 60 minutes of blood draw

Consultative services

• Administrative
• Limited annotated data includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, and diagnosis
• Extensive annotated data includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, diagnosis, medication and EMR recorded clinical outcome data (requests for extensive annotated data may require several weeks)
• Pathology consulting

Biorepository no longer provides research histology services. Please contact the Center for Genomic Pathology Laboratory for your research histology projects.