OPPC earns high score

We are excited to report that the nPOD Organ Processing and Pathology Core (OPPC) lab recently scored a 95.9% on the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) assessment! ISBER is the only international forum that addresses the technical, legal, ethical, and managerial issues relevant to repositories of biological and environmental specimens. Way to go OPPC, keep up the great work!

OPPC reaches record numbers

nPOD’s OPPC has been very busy this year! Already in 2011, nPOD has recovered 50 cases, which is a record number for our project. We are so thankful for these precious cases and know that through the efforts of the OPPC, this resource is being put to good use among our investigators. In fact, the OPPC has already sent 242 distribution/shipments to investigators this year, this is already a 34% increase over the 181 distributions/shipments that were distributed in 2010. That is nearly 5 shipments every week! Thank you to our OPPC for all of their long hours and hard work!