Comparative Pathology Research Core

Carmen Jane Booth, DVM, PhD

Primary contact Director

About the core

Mission Statement: To provide quality pathology support for animal-based studies to better understand disease processes and their treatment. 

To enable basic and translational studies, the following services are offered:

Available to Yale researchers & external researchers

Core website

Order form

Internal users, please go to LSOG 109 and fill out the in-person triplicate submission form, or email us. External users, please email us.

Email the director

Links and resources

Rates

The Mouse Research Pathology Service is the only service at the Yale School of Medicine providing pathologic phenotyping by comparative veterinary pathologists. In addition to gross and histologic evaluation of animal models, we also provide a variety of high quality histology services tailored to individual projects.

Rates effective 1/1/25.

ServicesUnitYale research investigatorExternal research investigator
C&T technical timeper hour$79.50$119.72
M&P technical timeper hour$79.00 
 
$115.00
Pathologistper hour$140.00$204.50
Necropsy: Research: Rodent (supplies only) 
for research animals only
per necropsy$5.00$116.00
Histology: Tissue processing onlyper sample$10.00$0
Histology: Tissue processing and embeddingper sample$12.25$35.00
Histology: Tissue processing, embedding, sectioning, 1st H&E Slideper sample$21.00$65.50
Histology: Cut unstained section from block (1-2 sections on one slide)per slide$3.50$14.75
Histology: H&E slideper slide$5.25$69.00
Histology: Special stains, non-silver stain only; no sectioningper slide$11.75$45.00
Histology: Silver stain only; no sectioningper slide$21.00$83.00
Histology: Frozen sectioningper section$21.00$400.00
Microbiology: Aerobic culture, including Pseudomonas screening culture, urine cultures, cecal screening cultureper sample$88.00$0
Microbiology: Anaerobic cultureper sample$130.00$0
Microbiology: Antibiotic sensitivity -- group 1per sample$84.00$0
Microbiology: Antibiotic sensitivity -- group 2per sample$84.00$0
Microbiology: Blood cultureper sample$145.00$0
Microbiology: Diff Quik stainper sample$34.00$0

Contacts

Director of Comparative Pathology Research

Carmen Jane Booth, DVM, PhD

Comparative Pathology Research & Necropsy Manager

Gordon Terwilliger, BS

Histology Manager

Michael Schadt, HT (ASCP)

Histotechnologist

Microbiology Manager