WNPRC PATHOLOGY SERVICES UNIT

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. To provide core, campus and non-host investigators with sophisticated and specialized pathology resources and expertise. 1. Progress and concerns The WNPRC has two part time pathologists and is conducting a search for a third pathologist. The unit has continued to function smoothly during 2007. Unit members have participated in the submission of 2 RO1 grants for the further development of the Primate Pathology Image Database and for the development of Primate Pathology Ontology. Members have provided training to scientists and staff at a primate research facility in China and will continue to work with Chinese collaborators in 2008. 2. Allocation of Resource Access Pathology Services notifies investigators of the resource via the Primate Center website, scientific meetings, and through the nonhuman primate biological materials distribution program. To date, no requests have been denied. All core WNPRC labs use Pathology Services at some point in their projects, and numerous campus affiliates avail of this service. In addition, since May 1, 2007, 20 investigators from non-host institutions received a total of 129 samples total, representing tissues, organs and genetic material from Macaca mulatta and Callithrix jacchus. Of these, 45 samples went to PIs at non-host institutions and without subprojects in this year's APR. Please see the Research Services section of this progress report for a table of non host, non-subproject species, specimen types and numbers, as required by APR reporting instructions. 3. Dissemination We request that projects utilizing Pathology Services acknowledge the service in manuscripts and presentations. The unit's pathologists also lecture regularly on primate pathology to WNPRC staff, veterinary pathology residents on campus, and to veterinary students. One unit member presented a short outreach program to a local Girl Scout troop that involved the creation of enrichment toys for animals and a follow-up meeting so that the children could see the results of their work. 4. Training In 2007 Pathology Unit members participated in clinical pathology training to provide additional services for colony management. Unit members provided training in specialized NHP necropsy procedures to campus pathologists and multiple consultations on NHP cases. Unit members provided preparatory training for the American College of Veterinary Pathologists certifying examination to four pathology residents on campus. Publications Pathology Services has contributed to numerous publications that involved use in part or in full of the WNPRC. Note: AIDS related