Human Tissue Resource Center

Histological Services

Biospecimen Banking

HTRC is CAP Accredited

The College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program  retains deemed status with the Joint Commission, United Network for Organ Sharing, the National Marrow Donor Program, the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapies, and many US state agencies.

Welcome to the Human Tissue Resource Center

a Comprehensive Cancer Center Core

Welcome to the Human Tissue Resource Center. The mission of this CAP-accredited core facility is to provide investigators with a centralized infrastructure to optimize the efficiency and costs related to research involving biospecimens. The HTRC occupies 4000 square feet of remodeled space within Pathology and functions as an integrated unit. Thus, duplication of personnel, equipment, and information systems are avoided, and coordination of activities is assured.

The HTRC now comprises four integrated facilities: Biospecimen Bank (BSB), Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM), Digital Pathology and Histology (including immunohistochemistry).

Currently the HTRC provides services for the collection of clinically-annotated human tissues, DNA, PBMC, saliva, and other requested body fluids. In addition, the core also provides services for tissue microarray (TMA) construction as well as cryostats and digital imaging for investigators use. In this way, the HTRC provides a coordinated, centralized, and dedicated program for the procuring, processing, dispersing and assessing all types of biospecimens together with downstream histology services.

Cancer Center members should cite the Cancer Center Support Grant (P30CA014599) when publishing any work assisted by this core facility.

Sample language to acknowledge the core: We thank The University of Chicago Human Tissue Resource Center (RRID:SCR_019199), especially [staff name], for there assistance with [service name].

News

Histology Pandemic Update

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are now asking all users to please email us at Histology@bsd.uchicago.edu  to schedule times for dropping off and picking up projects as we are trying to limit the number of people/time spent in our lab in order to comply with current...

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