Alberta Children's Hospital BioCORE, Canada

Certification Status: Complete Education

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The BioCORE is a research-based biobank and bioanalysis facility supporting research in pediatric health. We can assist research studies at all steps of the study process, from specimen processing, storage, retrieval as well as some bioanalysis (currently multiplex immunoassays and ELISAs) of specimens. The specimens accrued to date come from a number of studies.

Registered Biobank Name	Alberta Children's Hospital BioCORE
Biobank Leader	Josee Wong
Country	Canada
Email for biobank inquiries	jfwong@ucalgary.ca
Principal Investigator	Michael Esser and David Sinasac
Website
User Type Mono: A biobank that supports a specific research project, may have few staff members, a small-scale accrual scope with little to no initial intention of releasing or distributing biospecimens to secondary parties Oligo: A biobank that supports several research groups or clinical trials, may or may not be designed to release biospecimens outside their collaborative group Poly: A biobank that has generally a larger accrual scope, resources, and multiple users outside the biobank proper	Oligo - Collection aimed at supporting several research projects, a research group or a research consortium

Biospecimen Collected:

Cohort Highlights

100 cases Next Generation Sequencing assay to detect all classes of genetic variant in Lung Cancer using a single Diagnostic test.
200 cases Colorectal TMA for QC purposes in support of study of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in ovarian cancer tissues.
Build 300 cases breast cancer TMA containing primary tumour and matched metastatic LN for various subtypes (luminal, HER2, Triple negative). Start with Triple negatives.
125 cases Breast tumour and metastatic lymph nodes in breast cancer cases with outcomes of metastasis to lung or bone.
100 cases of rare tumours - fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. FFPE, frozen, BC.
200 cases of FFPE tissue sections from breast, lung adenocarcinoma, and lung squamous cell carcinoma with matching normal tissue (only pathology data requested).