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Brain Cancer Biobanking Australia (BCBA) is a virtual biobank hub established to provide researchers easy access to the amount, quality and type of tissue and associated data they need to accelerate both paediatric and adult translational brain cancer research.

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  • Examining the Development of Mouse Models for Paediatric Brain Cancer

    June 2019

    BCBA member biobank, Children’s Cancer Centre Tissue Bank in Melbourne, was involved in a multi-centre study using patient derived tissue samples to examine the development of laboratory and mouse models for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) - a high grade glioma in children. These models mimic the characteristics of the original tumour making them valuable tools for research. This study provides further insight into the factors underlying the successful creation of DIPG tumour models - the sadly lacking but much-needed vehicles to facilitate research into new treatments for this aggressive paediatric brain tumour.

    “We are proud to be part of collaborations such as this where tissue samples from biobanks around the world are pooled to get the significant number of samples needed to undertake this important research” said Dr Louise Ludlow, Children’s Cancer Centre Tissue Bank Manager.

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  • BCBA’s Virtual Network is Expanding

    May 2019

    Following the establishment of a Brain Tumour Collaborative Working Group at Monash University, the Monash Children’s Cancer Biobank has become part of the BCBA network and we are looking forward to welcoming all brain tumour biobanks at the Monash Medical Centre and Alfred Hospital to our network as they begin their operations.

    Collaboration is key to advancing brain cancer research and BCBA would like to thank Prof Terry O’Brien, Chair of the Monash University Brain Tumour Collaborative Working Group, for leading this exciting initiative.

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