The TSB BioBank, under our umbrella protocol, provides high-quality human tissues, blood, and other biospecimens that are prospectively collected, processed, and stored for distribution to investigators, with or without their own IRB protocol.
Contact Us
Facility Manager: Everlyne Nkadori
Contact: BioBank Email
Lab: 608-262-8884, WIMR 2058
Hours: 7am-5pm M-F
Location: Map
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Equipment Rental and Nucleic Acid Analysis
Cryosectioning, H&E ,and Slide Review
Customized Biospecimen Acquisition Including Clinical Data
Services
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Annotated Biospecimens
Flash frozen, cryopreserved, formalin-fixed and paraffin embedded, and OCT embedded biospecimens
Biospecimen Informatics
Chart review for PRMC and IRB approved protocols
Cryosectioning
H&E Staining
Customized Biospecimen Acquisition
For PRMC and IRB-approved protocols
Pathology Slide Review
- H&E stained slide interpretation
- Interpret IHC slides in conjunction with H&E
- Evaluate IHC staining for antibody optimization (per antibody)
Nucleic Acid Analysis (Bioanalyzer)
The Bioanalyzer is a chip-based capillary electrophoresis machine to analyze RNA and DNA. Used as a quality control mechanism prior to downstream experiments.
Equipment Rental
Email the Biobank to reserve the Bioanalyzer, Cryostat, Microtome, or Vibratome.
Acknowledgments
Any published research which received funding from the UWCCC Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG), including the use of UWCCC Shared Resources to generate or analyze data or conduct clinical trials, must acknowledge the UWCCC. See Acknowledging UWCCC in Publications, Posters, and Presentations. Please also acknowledge “UWCCC TSB-BioBank” for any work supported by the BioBank. Thank you!