Facilities & Quality Assurance

The CVPath Institute houses approximately 11,200 square feet of which nearly 70% is dedicated to comprehensive pathology and laboratory services. The facility is fully equipped with the most advanced technology including:

Shandon Excelsior processors
Shandon Hypercenter embedding processors
Shandon microtomes paraffin sectioning
Lecia microtomes plastic sectioning
Hacker Bright OTF/HS Microtome Cryostat equipped with a Tungsten Carbide Knife for hard tissue sectioning and CryoJane® Tape Transfer System
Shandon automatic stainer
Zeiss confocal microscope
Hitachi scanning electron microscope
Hitachi transmission electron microscope
EXAKT™ section grinding technology systems
NanoDrop UV/Vis spectrophotometer
Agilent Bioanalyzer™
Applied Biosystems 7500 fast real time PCR system
Dako Cytomation Autostainer Plus
Faxitron LX-60 Radiography System
Siemens C-Arm

CVPath Institute, Inc. provides Quality Assurance services following FDA Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Regulations for Nonclinical Laboratory Studies. This includes overseeing studies from arrival at CVPath to finalization to assure that they meet FDA regulations. Contact: Barbara M. Munjal, QA Specialist, bmunjal@cvpath.org or 301-208-3570 ext. 102.