Lymphoma Tissue Bank Core

Core Leaders: John Chan, M.D., and Guido Marcucci, M.D.
 
The overarching goals of this core is to provide high quality, well annotated and strictly quality controlled biospecimens for the projects, to develop and implement assays needed for the analysis of the biospecimens and to collaborate with Core B to build the informatics infrastructures to facilitate all aspects of research linked to biospecimens.
 
  • Specific Aim 1: is to provide tissue banking and histology/pathology services. Specialized services will be performed according to the needs of the projects with the collection of leukapheresis specimens to generate CAR-T cells (Project 1); characterization of complex Hodgkin lymphoma and host cell populations through multispectral multiplexed immunofluorescence (mIF) phenotyping and gene expression profiling (GEP) (Project 3); cytogenetic and genomic characterization of lymphomas and the preparation of samples to generate primary patient-derived xenograft (PDX) non Hodgkin lymphoma models (Project 4).
  • Specific Aim 2: Because of the complexity of the datasets associated with the functions of Core C, we will collaborate with Core B (Research Informatics) to design, build, and integrate databases relevant to biospecimens to improve their functionality and connectivity to support SPORE projects and collaborations on other NCI-sponsored projects.