TISSUE PROCUREMENT CENTER
The Center for Translational Cancer Research
A pilot project of the NCCCP evaluates how NCI’s guidelines for collection and storage of specimens can be applied nationwide to benefit the entire cancer research community. Christiana Care’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory medicine “accessions,” or officially accepts, more than 28,000 surgical pathology specimens a year. According to Christiana Care Tissue Procurement Section chief pathologist Mary Iacocca, M.D. “Access to such a broad and diverse cross-section of tissue and blood samples gives researchers a great opportunity to study both normal and cancerous cells,” she says. “Our goal is to continue to expand the types of human tissue specimens we collect, especially for translational research projects. We get a number of requests from investigators for specific tissues from different parts of the body and we want to be as responsive as possible to those requests.”
As Director of the Tissue Procurement Center in the Department of Pathology at Christiana Care and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, Dr. Iacocca plays a key role in translational cancer research. The Tissue Procurement Center provides a resource which links scientists at the University of Delaware’s Department of Biological Sciences, at the AI Dupont Hospital for Children, and DBI with clinicians at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center for cancer research projects. Increased tissue procurement enhances the resources available and funding possibilities for translational research studies that involve the application of basic science toward potential therapies.
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