Consultation and interpretive services are available: trained pathologists can provide assistance in staining, interpretation, scoring, and basic statistical analysis. In addition, consultation and planning for large-scale studies are available. Please e-mail us if you have any questions about our repository of paraffin-embedded tissue blocks, tissue microarrays, fresh frozen tissue, OCT embedded frozen tissue, blood, serum, plasma, buffy coat, whole slide images, genomic data (both RNA and DNA based data) and clinical outcomes/asbestos exposure data.
To receive tissue from the National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank, you must first send a Letter of Intent (LOI) that contains:
You can submit your Letter of Intent electronically, or download, fill in and mail the Letter of Intent to: Chris Garner at cgarner@pitt.edu
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