Facility Details

Established in 1981, the Morphology Core Facility is a DERC (Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center) Research Core Laboratory. Major funding for the Morphology Core is provided by a Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center grant from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bruce Woda, MD , Professor of Pathology Department is the core director.
The Morphology Core Facility is a state-of-the-art, fully equipped histology lab that provides histology services in support of investigators at UMass Medical School, including
• routine histological preparations.
• special stains,
• immunohistochemistry.
• frozen sections.
The core provides advice on techniques that are appropriate in submitting and evaluating morphologic preparations.