JGH Central Biobank, Canada

Certification Status: Approved

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The JGH Central Biobank was created to support fundamental and clinical cancer research within the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) by archiving cancer specimens and their associated normal tissue and blood samples according to strict guidelines. Our goal is to centralize oncological biobanking at the JGH: as such, we are currently banking head-and-neck, upper and lower gastrointestinal, melanoma, and thoracic lesions, as well as DNA for women's cancers.

Registered Biobank Name	JGH Central Biobank
Biobank Leader	Reem Merza (biobank coordinator)
Country	Canada
Email for biobank inquiries	reem.merza.ccomtl@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Principal Investigator	Dr. Alan Spatz
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	Poly - Collection aimed at supporting undetermined, multiple users with ethics approved research projects, through a defined access/application mechanism.

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).