Tag: Pediatric
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...
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...
NIH Launches Program to Offer Molecular Characterization of Pediatric Cancer Data
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched the Molecular Characterization Initiative for pediatric tumors and this program offers tumor molecular characterization, also called biomarker testing, to children, adolescents, and young adults with newly diagnosed central...
Establishing A Pediatric COVID-19 Biorepository
The global pandemic of COVID-19, caused by the highly infectious and transmissible coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has become a leading cause of death in older adults. The risk of severe disease and death has been highest in older patients and in...
