Fee Structure for Cost Recovery:
Pricing is based on the concept of a "tissue unit". One tissue unit is defined as follows:
A) Up to five 4-6 m tissue sections cut from a single paraffin block, or
B) A single tissue core (ranging from 0.6 to 2mm in diameter) taken from a paraffin tissue block, or
C) A 5 to 60 m thick frozen section (must be excess tissue; may not include diagnostic tissue) or
D) 50mg – 1gm of fresh frozen or custom-fixed tissue (must be excess tissue; may not include diagnostic tissue), or
E) Protocol-defined tissue that requires the review or oversight by the Dept of Pathology (independent of amount), or
F) A whole organ from autopsy (1 whole organ or large slice is equivalent to 10 tissue units)
The price/tissue unit is as follows:
Academic (non-profit)
User Price/tissue unit $25
Second unit and subsequent units of same sample $15
Commercial (for profit)
User Price/tissue unit $150
Second unit and subsequent units of same sample $100