Projects per year
Infrastructure Details
Acronym
HCF
Description
The HistoCore facility offers services for studying cells and tissue specimens of experimental animal and human origin. The purpose is to facilitate for researchers to connect to the pathology department and obtain well-annotated biobank samples for various omics analyses. The facility strives to interact with and increase the visibility of other similar facilities in the region of Malmö and Lund.
Equipment and resources
•Cryostat (thermo scientific NX50)
•Microtomes (LEICA RM2255)
•Tissue micro array (Pathology Devices)
•Dehydration instrument (TISSUE-TEK VIP)
•Staining platform (LEICA RM2255, Autostainer Link 48)
•Extraction instrument (QIAcube)
•TissueLyser (QIAGEN LT)
•Embedding station
•Microtomes (LEICA RM2255)
•Tissue micro array (Pathology Devices)
•Dehydration instrument (TISSUE-TEK VIP)
•Staining platform (LEICA RM2255, Autostainer Link 48)
•Extraction instrument (QIAcube)
•TissueLyser (QIAGEN LT)
•Embedding station
Services provided
The HistoCore facility provides services such as histoprocessing, paraffin embedding, paraffin sectioning, frozen sectioning, construction of tissue microarrays (TMA) and paraffin embedded cell blocks, immunohistochemistry, and extraction of DNA/RNA from human and animal tissues, cells in culture and blood.
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Other Clinical Medicine
Infrastructure category
- Major Infrastructure
Projects
- 3 Active
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BILLIONSTARS: BILe duct and LIver cancer: ON-treatment Surveillance of Tumor evolution And Response to Systemic treatment
Jirström, K. (PI), Falk, P. (Research student), Eberhard, J. (Researcher), Williamsson, C. (Researcher), Jacobsen, H. (Research student) & Olsson Hau, S. (Researcher)
2025/05/01 → 2028/12/31
Project: Research
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On-CALL: On-treatment biomarkers in metastatic ColorectAL cancer for Life (On-CALL)
Jirström, K. (PI), Eberhard, J. (PI), Siesing, C. (Researcher), Nodin, B. (Research engineer), Jacobsen, H. (Research student) & Kuznyecov, D. S. (Research student)
Mrs. Berta Kamprad's Cancer Foundation
2023/02/01 → 2028/12/31
Project: Research
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Chemotherapy, Host response And Molecular dynamics in Periampullary cancer
Jirström, K. (PI), Olsson Hau, S. (CoPI), Eberhard, J. (CoPI), Nodin, B. (Research engineer), Svensson, A. (Research student), Svensson, M. (Research student) & Jacobsen, H. (Research student)
Sjöbergstiftelsen, Lennart Glans Stiftelse, Cancerfonden, Swedish Research Council, Mrs. Berta Kamprad's Cancer Foundation
2018/11/01 → 2028/12/31
Project: Research