Organ Specific Project - Pancreas

Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

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Project Summary The overall goal of the Pancreas OSP is to address this limitation in current knowledge by developing an ultra- high content mass spectrometry (MS)-based 3-dimensional (3-D) imaging pipeline to characterize the molecular signatures (lipids, metabolites and proteins) of different cell types and extracellular matrix components at high resolution. The imaging data acquired by this unique platform will be aligned and fused with the 3-D structure of the human pancreas obtained by coordinate-based alignment with MRI and histochemical based images. This technological pipeline will be developed and integrated with other molecular interrogation pipelines generated through HuBMAP, to create a comprehensive multidimensional 3-D molecular atlas of the human pancreas.