Pathology & Laboratory Medicine About Us Message from the Chair Contact Us Education & Training Residency Program Fellowship Programs CLS Program Graduate Program Continuing Education Programming Research Experimental Tissue Resource Shared Facility Divisions Faculty Experimental Tissue Resource Shared Facility Home Research Research: Clinical Departments Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: Home Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: Research Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: Experimental Tissue Resource Shared Facility A Shared Resource for Researchers The UCI Experimental Tissue Resource (ETR) supports the research mission across the UCI campus and provides basic, translational and clinical researchers access to and analysis of human and animal tissues. The ETR is a shared resource funded partly by the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. It has facilities on the UCI main campus and UCI Medical Center, with services available to both on- and off-campus investigators. Services The ETR leverages the technical and professional expertise of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, offering the following services: Tissue and correlative clinical data procurement and distribution Fresh surgical tissue, archival biobanked flash-frozen tissue and archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue. Virtual biorepository portal that allows investigators to search by final diagnosis for de-identified FFPE human tissue specimens. Customized requests of clinical data to accompany the tissue requests: demographics, lab values and outcome measures. Cryopreserved viable blood and bone marrow cell samples. Tissue histology, immunohistochemistry and digital pathology services Routine histology services, including tissue embedding, cutting and staining. Cytochemical stains, frozen sections, automated immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining and optimization of nonstandard IHC protocols. Ventana DP200 high-speed digital slide scanners available to Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators for image analysis and morphometry studies. Custom and standard tumor microarray (TMA) blocks using a fully automated TMA Grand Master (3DHistech). Interpretive histopathology and mouse pathology services Necropsy, histopathology consultations, consultation on orthotopic and patient-derived xenograft (PDX) tumor models, and experimental design. Contact Us ETR Co-Director Robert Edwards, MD, PhDredwards@hs.uci.edu Phone: 949-824-8576 ETR Co-Director Wendy Cozen, DO, MPHwcozen@hs.uci.edu Phone: 714-456-5153 ETR Manager Delia Tifrea, MBAdtifrea@hs.uci.edu Phone: 714-872-1093 Irvine Campus Address Medical Science Building 1, Room D-440 UC Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 Medical Center Address 334 Shanbrom Hall UC Irvine Medical Center 101 The City Drive Orange, CA 92867 Additional Information More information about the Experimental Tissue Resource can be found on the UCI ETR site. Visit website