Biospecimen, Pathology, and Genotyping Core


Director Husain Sattar, MD
Co-Director James Fackenthal, PhD

The goal of the Biospecimens, Pathology, and Genotyping (BPG) Core is to work with investigators of each SPORE research project and personnel of the Analytic and Informatics Core to ensure efficient and highly coordinated procurement, use, storage and analysis of human biospecimens. The BPG Core maintains a repository of biospecimens including tumor tissue, pre-malignant tissue, adjacent non-malignant tissue, serum, plasma, peripheral blood lymphocytes, and lymphoblastoid cell lines, along with their derivatives such as DNA and RNA samples.  The Core’s coding system for all laboratory specimens ensures patient confidentiality and prevents experimental bias. The BPG Core is the integration of the UC Cancer Research Center Human Tissue Research Core Facility and the DNA Sequencing and Genotyping Core Facility.

Analytic and Information Core

Administrative Core