TISSUE AND RESEARCH PATHOLOGY SERVICES

组织和研究病理学服务（TARPS）是CCSG资助的现有共享设施， 作为UPCI研究项目的中心支持，该项目利用来自患者的组织材料， 匹兹堡大学医学中心（UPMC）。Tarps的主要目的是提供一个 简化和精简研究组织积累和支付程序的机制， 提供高效的病理学研究支持服务。的组织累积和支付功能 TARPS起源于1991年，当时是一个小型服务机构，重点是泌尿生殖系统癌症。资源 在过去的18年里，该公司已大幅扩张，现在从 癌症患者，为重大研究项目提供支持，如 头颈癌、肺癌和皮肤癌卓越研究专业计划（SPORE） 早期疾病研究网络（EDRN）相关的研究工作，血液肿瘤学服务，以及 其他癌症研究项目。 TARPS提供的服务包括：（1）组织和生物标本采购，（2）研究 组织学，（3）用临床数据注释样品，和（4）组织微阵列（TMA）设施。未来 这些努力将包括开发实时分子分析肿瘤的程序。

The Tissue and Research Pathology Services (TARPS) is an existing CCSG-funded shared facility that serves as the central support for UPCI research programs that utilize tissue materials from patients at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). The main objectives of TARPS are to provide a mechanism to simplify and streamline the process of research tissue accrual and disbursement and to provide efficient research pathology support services. The tissue accrual and disbursement function of TARPS originated in 1991 as a small service facility, with a focus on genitourinary cancers. The resource has substantially expanded in the last 18 years and now procures and disburses tissue materials from patients with a diverse array of cancers, providing support to major research projects such as the Specialized Programs Of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Head and Neck, Lung, and Skin Cancers, the Early Disease Research Network (EDRN)-related research efforts, the Hematology-Oncology Service, and several other cancer research programs. Services provided by TARPS include: (1) tissue and biological specimen procurement, (2) research histology, (3) annotation of samples with clinical data, and (4) Tissue Micro-Array (TMA) facilities. Future efforts will include the development of procedures to molecularly profile tumors on a real-time basis.