Blizard Core Pathology Facility

Overview

The Core Pathology is a self funding, CPA accredited department and is a fee-for-service facility providing Histopathology services to members of Queen Mary University of London and other academic institutes, as well as providing a diagnostic service to the private sector (for more details on the diagnostic service please see tab).

Our remit is to advise, support or carry out work for research groups within Queen Mary University of London which ranges from:

• Processing and cutting paraffin sections
• Advising on snap freezing of frozen material
• Cutting frozen material
• Tinctorial (special) stains ( Atlas of Tinctorial Stains )
• Immunohistochemistry (see Antibody_Optimised_List.pdf of current antibodies optimised in the department, we also provide an antibody optimisation service)
• Light microscopy
• Scanning of stained slides

Users of the service can select from a number of options to enable them to work to their time and budgetary commitments.

• Have the entire project completed by the Pathology Core Facility.
• Have the Pathology Core Facility cut the sections for staining in the users laboratory.
• Use the Pathology Core laboratory facilities to carry out the work themselves

It is advised that Users come to discuss their project with us as you may wish to use a combination of any of the options above. The department is experienced with human and animal tissue but has had some experience in processing and cutting of different types of material like silk and leather (we will have a go at anything). There is archival animal and human tissue available as control material for optimisations.

The current staff are all Biomedical Scientists, specialists in histological techniques and are HCPC registered. They can provide the technical expertise and resources to cover the full range of histopathological techniques. Tuition is also offered in all aspects of histopathological technique as well as supervision and use of facilities once trained. It is also able to advise on costing when submitting grants that contain a histopathology element and we recommend that prospective users visit the facility when planning their grant applications.

Each year our reputation for high quality work is spread further in the academic community as researchers move on to new positions resulting in the facility collaborating on projects with:

• University of Bath
• University College London
• Kings College London
• Guys Hospital
• Dundee University
• Nottingham University
• Texas A&M University
• Imperial College London

If you wish to use the service, please schedule time on the Consultation calendar here to discuss your requirements. If required, an initial estimate of the likely cost can be provided, please email core-pathology@qmul.ac.uk for your request.

Before commencing any work please ensure that you have the authority from your supervisor/budget holder to make the request. We will need a project request form completed upon service request submission and a frozen material declaration form for each new frozen material project.

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Leadership Personnel

Institute Director: Prof. Graham Hitman

Core Pathology Academic Lead: Prof. Jo Martin

Lead Biomedical Scientist : Ms Laura Neal

Senior Biomedical Scientist: Ms Jessica Arultheesan

Biomedical Scientist: Mr Sol Mayet

Administrator: Miss Lorraine Singer

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

http://blizard.qmul.ac.uk/core-facilities/pathology-core-facility.html

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