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The NYU Experimental Pathology Shared Core Facilities provide services for the microscopic analysis of tissues for clinical as well as experimental animal model studies. Administrative integration of the specific cores allows the seamless exchange of samples, information, and expertise between the different functional units and facilitates interactions between investigators located at different sites and across disciplines, thus promoting the collaborations necessary for translational studies.

Shared resources in experimental pathology are divided into two functional units: The first Core Service is Histopathology, which consists of three sub-cores located at strategically placed sites. In addition to standard tissue processing, embedding, and cryosectioning, extensive immunohistochemical services for both human and animal studies requiring special histochemical and immunohistochemical staining are available. The second Core resource unit is the Tissue Acquisition and Banking Service. Tissue banking coordinates sample acquisition, storage, and retrieval services for relevant human tissues. Five organ-specific tissue banks (breast, prostate, neuro-oncology, thoracic oncology, and melanoma) provide an extensive inventory of well-annotated specimens.

Another resource is the Transgenic Mouse Core, providing zygote injection and gene targeting services. This Core also offers rederivation, embryo freezing, and sperm cryopreservation.