Tissue Bank

The post-mortem examination makes available invaluable donor tissue for research. Tissue is the critical resource for numerous innovative research protocols. These protocols are directed toward the study of a large group of incurable diseases which continue to stymie medical science as they exact their price in suffering and death. For most somal, psychiatric and neurological disorders there are, as yet, no suitable animal models.

Recognizing the inherent limitations of clinical trials and of animals as experimental models for human illnesses, the National Institute of Health and other public and private agencies fund a number of human-tissue banks. These banks rely entirely on the steady rate of autopsies performed, with the consent of the family, concerning patients who have had a thorough medical workup, in order to obtain a wide range of tissue samples.

PathServe Autopsy & Tissue Bank was established in 1990 to maximize investigational use of human tissues removed at surgery or autopsy. All tissues are stored either formalin fixed or snap-frozen. Fresh tissues are available as well. Tissue provided for research and commercial development nationwide.