About the Tissue MicroArray Laboratory: Johns Hopkins Pathology

Director:	Angelo DeMarzo M.D. Ph.D.
Co-Director:	Marc Halushka, M.D. Ph.D.
Manager:	Helen Fedor, B.S. hfedor@jhmi.edu

About TMA Lab

Introducing the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Tissue Microarray Core Facility

We are pleased to announce the opening of our facility for construction of tissue microarrays (TMAs) at Johns Hopkins. TMAs are a powerful new technology for high throughput analysis of biomarker expression in a large number of tissue samples. These samples range from human tissue specimens with clinical follow-up, animal tissues, to cell lines. Over the last several years our laboratory has produced more than 190 TMAs containing greater than 30,000 tissue cores for more than 20 different Hopkins Investigators. Funding has come from various sources including the National Institutes of Health Prostate SPORE Program, Cap CURE, and private donors. As a result of continued demand and our considerable experience we are now offering this expertise to the Johns Hopkins community in the form of a new service center. Email us today to set up a free consultation to discuss your project.

The TMA Core will provide free advice to investigators on array design. Investigators with an interest in TMA data handling beyond simple spreadsheets will have full access to our newly developed TMA database, TMAJ (http://tmaj.pathology.jhmi.edu/).