Tissue Modeling & Drug Development Core

The Tissue Modeling and Drug Development Core (TMDDC) provides a growing archive of fixed and living tissues, DNA, and RNA for sequencing to support the CaRE2 mission. We are also developing a robust, well-annotated biorepository of tissue samples from a Florida and California patient population and make them available to the CaRE2 investigators.

Together, the TMDDC leaders provide an unusual combination of synergistic skills and experiences ranging from highly technical pathological and research procedures to clinical therapeutics and from basic science to translational research to products to reduce cancer burden.

Request Tissue

Ready to request Samples? To request samples, drawn from the below inventories, you will need to submit specific information including:

  • proof of IRB approval
  • specific aims
  • statistical analysis
  • detailed specimen information

 

Please use the form below to submit your request. 

Summary of Available Specimens

By Race

By Anatomical Site

By Specimen Type

Other Tissue Resources

Many resources are available to researchers outside the CaRE2 in-house tissue inventories. These include NCI-funded modeling projects and tissues collected as part of other research. Learn more about some of these resources and how to access them.

Contact Us

To request samples, you will need to submit specific information including proof of IRB approval, specific aims, statistical analysis, and detailed specimen information drawn from the above inventories.

Want to Join Us?

If you share our interest in reducing cancer health disparities, please consider becoming a member of the CaRE² center. Investigators, trainees, community leaders, and advocates are welcome.

Meet the Tissue Modeling Core Team

Hernan Flores-Rozas, PhD

TISSUE | FAMU​

Bodour Salhia, PhD

TISSUE | USC

Paul Okunieff, MD

TISSUE | UF

Kristianna M. Fredenburg, MD, PhD

TISSUE | UF

Additional TMDDC Support

Christina Gobin

Tissue | UF

Jose Aparicio

Tissue | USC

Contact Us

Have questions about working with the TMDDC? We’d love to hear from you. Please include any specific tissue type needs to allows us to better answer your question.