Facility Details

Pathology Services Core is essential to nonhuman primate colony health and research at the WNPRC. PSU team consists of pathologists with ACVP and/or ACLAM board certification, research program manager, and research specialists. Unit works with clinical veterinary staff to provide rapid diagnosis and effective monitoring and interpretation of acute and chronic conditions affecting colony animals as well as subjects assigned to research studies. Core offers services including clinical pathology testing; cytology evaluation; surgical biopsy evaluation; gross post mortem examination, specialized sample collections; and histology with unbiased interpretation of lesions in reference to spontaneous disease, experimental questions, and research goals. PSU is responsible for collection, banking, and distribution of NHP samples through both Nonhuman Primate Biological Materials Distribution core and National Institute on Aging Nonhuman Primate Tissue Bank.