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WELCOME TO BCBA
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.
News
Funding Boost for BCBA National Clinical Registry Project
July 2019
BCBA is delighted to have been selected as one of the 32 successful grant recipients in the recent Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) call for applications under their 'Transformative data' program. The $50,000 grant will support BCBA's multi-disciplinary working group, under the leadership of A/Prof Lindy Jeffree (pictured), to advance the National Paediatric & Adult Brain Cancer Clinical Registry Project.
The proposed registry will capture data that will not only provide an understanding of brain cancer incidence, treatment patterns and outcomes across Australia, but also assist researchers with clinical information and facilitate registry clinical trials.
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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Events
2019 BCBA Consortium Meeting – Save the Date!
27th October 2019 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
The annual BCBA Consortium Meeting will once again be held in conjunction with the COGNO Annual Scientific Meeting. This year the meeting will be held at the International Convention Centre, Sydney. We look forward to seeing you there.
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