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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.

ETR Co-Director

Robert Edwards, MD, PhD
redwards@hs.uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8576

ETR Co-Director

Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH
wcozen@hs.uci.edu
Phone: 714-456-5153

ETR Manager

Delia Tifrea, MBA
dtifrea@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.

Non-Clinical Trials Resources