Angelo De Marzo, M.D., is the Principle Investigator of the laboratory. He is responsible for the overall direction and operation of the laboratory.

Dr. Halushka is the primary pathologist responsible for the operation of the TMA imaging component of the TMA lab. Dr. Halushka also shares the responsibility of QA/QC of control tissues.

Alan Meeker, Ph.D. Is the Director of the Immuohistochemistry Lab. He is responsible for setting up and operation of the IHC lab. He will perform consults with clients to assess their needs and advise on providing services to meet the needs of the client. He will provide training and oversight to the IHC staining staff.

Helen Fedor has 25 years experience in research histology, lab management and supervision. Ms. Fedor is responsible for the overall technical management of the facility and is the direct supervisor of the laboratory. Ms. Fedor handles billing and monthly summaries of billing and is responsible for annual reports. Along with these tasks, Ms. Fedor is responsible for maintenance of all service contracts and equipment in the TMA lab. Ms. Fedor provides oversight and support to the staff and functioning of these areas, she meets with all users of the Core for consultations regarding TMA construction, design and data handling. She teaches new users to use the TMAJ Database to design arrays. Sets up users with Database access and permissions, provides support to TMA lab clientele. Manages and Supervises the TMA Lab personnel as well as performing administrative tasks. Collects control tissue to be used in Arrays.

Marcela ("Cellie") Southerland has 38 years in research and clinical Histology, lab management and supervision. Ms. Southerland is responsible for receiving and registering blocks and circled slides, construction and sectioning of all TMAs, and sectioning of all TMAs. She also performs H&E staining and immunohistochemical staining for TMA quality control. Ms. Southerland is responsible for maintaining all TMA blocks and all TMA slides that have not been distributed to investigators, and for maintaining log books and recording database entries for all TMA slides.

Bonnie Gambichler has 19 years in research and clinical histology. Ms Gambichler is resposible for the accessioning of histology projects into the lab. She performs grossing, embedding, sectioning and staining. She offers customers expert advice on the handling of their projects insuring that the highest standards may be met in servcing of these projects. In addition she does invoicing and ordering. Bonnie will be adding on the additional duty of performing Immunohistochemisty.

Kristen Lecksell has 12 years experience in research, and 3 years experience in virtual microscopy. She is responsible for digitizing tissue on glass slides using The Aperio ScanScope CS to produce virtual microscopy images as well as backing up those images. She troubleshoots scanning hardware and software issues and also interacts with Aperio's Technical Support. She also schedules the yearly preventative maintenance and upgrades. She maintains detailed written and electronic data on the scanned material and administers Spectrum (http://www.aperio.com/pathology-services/spectrumplus-information-management.asp ) which is Aperio's integrated web-based digital pathology information management system. She also interacts with TMAJ (software that supports information and images related to Tissue Micro Arrays - see http://tmaj.pathology.jhmi.edu/#ABOUT) by importing composite TMA images into TMAJ, creating images projects for researchers, giving researchers the correct access to the applications and projects. Ms. Lecksell is a graduate of the Towson University and has a Bachelor of Science in biology.

Jim Morgan, Software Engineer, is the principal software developer for several of the core facility's software programs including TMAJ, which provides comprehensive tissue-microarray and specimen management, as well as Frida, which provides image-analysis. He is also a consultant to the JHU bio-specimens committee who are in the process of creating a pilot for caTissue, a software program for tracking bio-specimen information.