Victorian Cancer Biobank
The Victorian Cancer Biobank is a collection of blood and tissue samples, taken with consent from healthy individuals or patients diagnosed with cancer or at risk of developing cancer.
Samples and information from the Biobank are available for research into cancer including its causes, development, diagnosis and treatment. The overall aim of the Biobank is to improve our knowledge of cancer and cancer-related diseases as well as our ability to manage cancer in the future.
The Victorian Cancer Biobank is a not-for-profit consortium or network of Tissue Banks, supported by The Cancer Council Victoria and the Victorian Government. It has been established to increase the collection of normal and cancer tissue and support the sharing of tissue amongst researchers located in a number of institutions and organisations.
Professor Geoff Lindeman and Dr Julian Clark, both from the institute, played a major role in the establishment of the Cancer BioBank, which was funded with a $16 million grant from the Victorian Government. The BioBank was launched in September 2007.