Research Tissue Repository Core Facility
Contacts
Staff
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Lorrie perpetua
Tissue Bank Coordinator
- UConn Health Room L1086
- lperpetua@uchc.edu
- 860.679.1889
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Mary Melinda Sanders
Principal Investigator
- msanders@uchc.edu
- 860.679.3386
Location
Campus Address
UConn Health
Mailing Address
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
Instrumentation
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Sample Assistance
Services include:
- consenting of eligible patients
- coordination for specimen collection
- storage, data management and specimen distribution
- collection of specimens to researcher's specifications (ex. procurement in RPMI media or RNAlater)
- H & E, unstained and frozen sections on slides as well as paraffin and OCT curls
- RNA and DNA isolation from specimens using methods that preserve the integrity of the nucleic acids