# Shared Resource 08: Pathology Specimen Locator

> **NIH NIH P30** · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · 2021 · $179,051

## Abstract

Pathology Specimen Locator Shared Resource
Project Summary / Abstract
The Pathology Specimen Locator Core facilitates DF/HCC member access to tissue through a web-based,
integrated network of distributed, searchable databases that contain de-identified, coded, pathologic
information on post-diagnostic, excess human materials (including frozen or paraffin-embedded tissues).
Access to annotated human tissues with cancer is critical for translational research, which provides an
increasingly important bridge between basic scientific research and clinical medicine. The pathology
departments in the DF/HCC member institutions have paraffin archives with millions of specimens, with
thousands more being added each year. These specimens provide the essential substrate for the development
of new molecular classifications of tumors and the discovery and validation of new biomarkers, which may
improve diagnosis and prognostication, or serve as targets of new rational therapies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10062896
- **Project number:** 5P30CA006516-56
- **Recipient organization:** DANA-FARBER CANCER INST
- **Principal Investigator:** FRANK C KUO
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $179,051
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-03-10 → 2021-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10062896

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10062896, Shared Resource 08: Pathology Specimen Locator (5P30CA006516-56). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10062896. Licensed CC0.

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