Tissue Banking: Samples are Only Part of the Issue. What About the Data? скачать в хорошем качестве

Tissue Banking: Samples are Only Part of the Issue. What About the Data?

Mary Horak, BS, CCRP Clinical Research Services UPMC Hillman Cancer Center AIM has brought together six esteemed institutions and researchers to establish the first collaborative melanoma tissue bank consortium. Together, we are collecting more than 500 fresh-frozen primary melanoma tissue samples and corresponding patient data—and then performing much-needed research with those samples to answer some of melanoma’s most critical questions: Who will develop melanoma, and why? Whose melanomas will spread and become deadly? Which drugs will work on which patients? Ultimately, the International Melanoma Tissue Bank Consortium (IMTBC) will help us make significant progress toward finding the cure.