Human Studies Unit - Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Australia

Certification Status: Approved

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The Human Studies Unit (HSU) enables all aspects of sample collection for human research studies from project design through to sample processing and storage. Located within the Institute for Molecular Biosciences at The University of Queensland, the HSU currently supports 14 research projects across Australia and the Asia Pacific area. The HSU team have also developed a custom content management system (CMS) providing data capture from clinic to lab. The web based CMS allows cross-site standardisation and portability in terms of managing data associated with participants enrolled in research studies. HSU supports a broad range of research projects including neurodegenerative disorders, women's health, family and children studies and mental health.

Registered Biobank Name	Human Studies Unit - Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Biobank Leader	Leanne Wallace
Country	Australia
Email for biobank inquiries	leendanw@gmail.com
Principal Investigator	Prof Naomi Wray
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).