Tag: Children
Swedish Childhood Tumor Biobank Receives SEK 5.13 Million Grant for National Precision Medicine Project
The Swedish Childhood Tumor Biobank, a national genomic biobank dedicated to the study of pediatric cancer, is instrumental in advancing research into tumors affecting children. As part of the Genomic Medicine Sweden (GMS) initiative focused on pediatric oncology, the...
National Muscle Disease Bio-databank: Australian’s First Biobank for Advancing Research on Children with Genetic...
An Australian first biobank is being established with the goal of advancing research and uncovering novel therapies for children afflicted by genetic muscle disorders, including muscular dystrophy.
The National Muscle Disease Bio-databank, co-led by Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Monash University,...
Sydney Children’s Hospital Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Biobanking to Understand Paediatric Cancer
For a quarter of a century and ongoing, thousands of patients treated at The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) have played a vital role in advancing global knowledge about pediatric cancer via Biospecimen Research Services.
Originally established as the first...
New Biobank in UK Created to Advance Research on Pediatric and Young People’s Cancers
VIVO Biobank is supported by the charities Cancer Research UK and Blood Cancer UK and will provide cancer researchers with a centralised collection of cell and tissue samples from children and young people affected by cancer across the country.
The samples...
Multinational Kids-DOTT Trial Of Anticoagulant Therapy For Venous Thromboembolism
Enrollment has completed for a landmark randomized clinical
trial at Johns Hopkins All Children’s on the duration of anti-clotting
medication (anticoagulant) therapy for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients
under 21 years old — the Kids-DOTT trial. A multinational biobank of blood
samples for...
