Tumor Tissue and Pathology Shared Resource

Overview of Services

The Tumor Tissue and Pathology Shared Resource (TTPSR) consists of four well-integrated laboratories:

  • Tumor Tissue Lab
  • Human Pathology Lab
  • Comparative Pathology Lab
  • Organoid Processing Lab
  • Biospecimen Repository (BSR)

Citation Resources

Cite the P30 CCSG

The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Tumor Tissue and Pathology Shared Resource, supported by the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Center Support Grant award number P30CA012197. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

NIHMS Guidelines for Authors

Authors should also make sure that all publications are processed by the National Institutes of Health Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) to obtain a PubMed Central reference number (PMCID), per NIH guidelines.

External Funding Application “Facility” Description

Review the facility description of this Shared Resource on pages 2-5 of the  AHWFCCC boilerplate. 

Mission

To facilitate clinical and translational cancer research by:

  • collecting and supplying high-quality, well-characterized human and animal tissues (neoplastic and normal).
  • providing various pathology services to Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center (WFBCCC) investigators.
  • providing enterprise-wide clinical trail specimen support, banking, and clinical tumor profiling.

Focus Areas

  • Specimen banking – collection, processing, storage, shipping, and distribution; available at all sites
  • Histology, histotech, assay development, diagnostic, and experimental pathology services – human and non-human specimens
  • Organoid development and screening
  • Clinical trial specimen collection, processing, and shipping
  • Clinical Genomic Testing – single point of contact and standardized workflow

TTPSR Leaders

Ed Levine, MD, Director

Gregory L. Kucera, PhD, Assistant Director, TPL, WFBCCC

Wencheng Li, MD, Assistant Director, HPL, WFBCCC

David Caudell, DVM, PhD, Assistant Director, CPL, WFBCCC

Konstantinos Votanopoulos, MD, PhD, FACS, Assistant Director, OPL, WFBCCC

Farhang Farhangfar, MS, MBA, Assistant Director, Biospecimen Repository (BSR), Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health

Locations

Tumor Tissue Lab -  Hanes 4th floor

Human Pathology Lab -  Gray 2127

Comparative Pathology Lab - Clarkson Campus

Organoid Processing Lab - WFIRM 369

Biospecimen Repository (BSR) Levine Cancer Institute (Charlotte) 

Links and Resources

Tumor Tissue and Pathology Shared Resource home page

NIH resources

 

Contacts

Name Role Phone Email Location
Greg Kucera, PhD
Tumor Tissue Lab
 
336-716-6348
 
gkucera@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Tiffany Walker West
Tumor Tissue Lab
 
336-716-3721
 
twalkerw@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Libby McWilliams
Tumor Tissue Lab
 
336-716-5355
 
lmcwilli@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Tammy Sexton
Human Pathology Lab
 
336-716-6012
 
tsexton@wakehealth.edu
 

 
David Caudell, DVM, PhD
Comparative Pathology Lab
 
336-716-4763
 
dcaudell@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Cathy M. Mathis
Comparative Pathology Lab
 
336-716-1538
 
cmmathis@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Jean Gardin
Comparative Pathology Lab
 
336-716-1537
 
jgardin@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Wencheng Li
Human Pathology Lab
 

 
wenli@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Konstantinos Votanopoulos
Organoid Processing Lab
 

 
kvotanop@wakehealth.edu
 

 
Farhang Farhangfar
Biospecimen Repository, Atrium Health
 

 
farhang.farhangfar@atriumhealth.org