The GW Cancer Center and SMHS provide centralized shared resources that enable innovative, multidisciplinary cancer research by offering advanced technologies, expertise, and collaborative support, accelerating discovery, improving care across the cancer continuum, expanding impact through partnerships, and ensuring efficient, accessible, and high-quality scientific work.
Collaboration is fostered by centralizing advanced tools and expertise, encouraging shared use across departments, and supporting cross-disciplinary projects. Flexible services, active partnerships, and a focus on accessibility connect researchers from basic science, clinical, and population fields, enabling them to work together efficiently on complex cancer challenges.
Biospecimen Repository
The Biorepository Shared Resource provides standardized collection, processing, storage, and distribution of high-quality biospecimens with robust quality control and data support to advance translational and clinical research.
Cancer Epidemiology Shared Resource (CESR)
The Cancer Epidemiology Shared Resource (CESR) provides expert support in study design, epidemiologic methods, and data analysis to advance rigorous, collaborative cancer research and improve prevention, detection, and patient outcomes.
Cancer Informatics Core Pilot (CIC-P)
The Cancer Informatics Core Pilot (CIC-P) supports cancer researchers by providing expertise and infrastructure for managing, integrating, and analyzing complex clinical and multi-omic data to enable high-quality, collaborative, and data-driven discovery.
Flow Cytometry Lab
The GW Flow Cytometry Core provides advanced instrumentation, expert guidance, and comprehensive services, including multicolor analysis, cell sorting, and data support, to enable high-quality cellular research across diverse scientific applications.
Histopathology Core Lab
The Histopathology Core Laboratory at GW provides high-quality tissue processing, staining, and imaging services—along with expert consultation—to support reproducible, publication-ready research across basic, translational, and clinical studies.
Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy Laboratories
The Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy Lab provides comprehensive support for the development, optimization, and clinical translation of cellular therapies, with a particular focus on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and advanced cell-based immunotherapies.
Small Animal Imaging Lab (SAIL)
The Small Animal Imaging Laboratory at The George Washington University provides state-of-the-art, noninvasive imaging, including MRI, PET/CT, ultrasound, and optical modalities, to support longitudinal visualization of anatomical, physiological, and molecular processes in preclinical rodent models.