Singapore Cord Blood Bank, Singapore

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: Singapore Cord Blood Bank (SCBB), is a public bank collect, process and store cord blood for clinical application. However, the donor provide consent to release donated cord blood for research if the donated cord blood do not meet the clinical banking criteria. SCBB has been registered as a Research Tissue Bank under Human Biomedical Research Act of Singapore. SCBB provides cord blood products (fresh and frozen) for approved research.

Registered Biobank Name	Singapore Cord Blood Bank
Biobank Leader	Arun Prasath
Country	Singapore
Email for biobank inquiries	arun.prasath@scbb.com.sg
Principal Investigator	Dr Aloysius Ho
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

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).