JPC Taps Proscia to Modernize World's Largest Human Tissue Repository

Joint Pathology Center (JPC), the premiere pathology reference center for the U.S. government, has selected Proscia's Concentriq platform for a complete transformation of its pathology practice. Proscia is a Philadelphia, PA-based provider of digital and computational pathology solutions. The Joint Pathology Center seeks to preserve, modernize, and grow the nation's oldest tissue repository to promote biomedical research. Over the past century, it has collected approximately 55 million glass slides, 31 million paraffin-embedded tissue blocks, and over 500,000 wet tissue samples, which have provided critical insight into our understanding of current and future disease; data from the repository was used to sequence the 1918 influenza virus that killed more than 40 million people worldwide and can similarly help us to combat COVID-19. The rise of digital pathology, which captures high-resolution images of tissue specimen, is enabling JPC to realize even more value from its data by making it readily accessible to clinicians, pathologists, and healthcare data analysts.