Information for Research Investigators & Staff Scientists
@See >> Pathology Specimen Locator Core Facility at Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center <<
Development Status
History
The PSL has been operational since 2006. Many developers in the NCI funded SPIN program contributed to this work.
Current (2011)
Renewed interested in searching De-Identified Medical Text and Cancer Biospecimens motivated us to create this community portal for PSL.
There are 3 paid programmers working on various aspects of PSL
- Open Source development: Andrew McMurry
- Biospecimen search at Harvard : Larry Chung
- De-Identification : Britt Fitch
The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Pathology Specimen Locator (PSL) is a core developed to facilitate translational research requiring human specimens. The PSL is a distributed network of databases containing de-identified pathology reports and other specimen information from IRB-approved repositories within Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center affiliated institutions. Using the PSL, researchers can work with the pathology departments to find appropriate specimens for their research. The Harvard VLS currently contains approximately two million de-identified pathology reports from the four main Harvard Teaching Hospitals.
Contact Us
- Email Frank Kuo to participate in PSL as an investigator or tissue bank.
- Email Andrew McMurry to contribute to SPIN-PSL development.
- Join the development mailing list
Tissue Banks Participating in PSL
- Brigham & Women's Hospital
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Children's Hospital Boston
- Massachusetts General Hospital