VIVO Biobank
http://www.vivobiobank.org/
As a partnership between Cancer Research UK and Blood Cancer UK (formerly Bloodwise), VIVO Biobank provides a single point of access for people and organisations involved in researching blood, bone marrow and solid cancers in the young. VIVO Biobank merges the two existing national biobanks focused on childhood and youth cancer research – the CCLG Tissue Bank and CellBank. It contains all of the samples stored in each, making a deeper pool of tissues available from a single point of access. VIVO Biobank creates an integrated approach to how cancer samples are collected, stored and catalogued. It helps simplify how samples and data can be accessed by the research community and opens possibilities to link that data with other databases more easily. VIVO Biobank is open to international as well as UK-based researchers. Applications are reviewed rapidly by an independent sample and data access committee. Our team can give help and advice at all stages of the application from initial enquiry to dispatch of samples. VIVO Biobank also holds a collection of HLA-typed cord blood which are subject to the same review process.
Services
- Immunohistochemistry - staining
- Tissue micro array creation
- Nucleic acid extraction
Existing samples:
- Acute leukemia, disease (disorder)
- Astrocytoma of brain (disorder)
- Ependymoma (disorder)
- Fit and well (finding)
- Germinoma (morphologic abnormality)
- Glioma (disorder)
- Hepatoblastoma (disorder)
- Hodgkin's disease (disorder)
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis (disorder)
- Medulloblastoma (disorder)
- Nephroblastoma (disorder)
- Neuroblastoma (disorder)
- Osteosarcoma of bone (disorder)
- Retinoblastoma (disorder)
- Rhabdomyosarcoma (disorder)
Bespoke collection capabilities:
- Astrocytoma of brain (disorder)
- Ependymoma (disorder)
- Germinoma (morphologic abnormality)
- Glioma (disorder)
- Hepatoblastoma (disorder)
- Hodgkin's disease (disorder)
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis (disorder)
- Medulloblastoma (disorder)
- Nephroblastoma (disorder)
- Neuroblastoma (disorder)
- Osteosarcoma of bone (disorder)
- Retinoblastoma (disorder)
- Rhabdomyosarcoma (disorder)
Networks
- Confederation of Cancer Biobanks The NCRI’s Confederation of Cancer Biobanks (CCB) is a consortium of biobanks and biosample collections based in the UK, established to encourage greater coordination and promote harmonisation between biobanks – enabling them to share best practice and raise awareness of their collections with researcher
Contact Information
- Email:
- enquiries@vivobiobank.org
- Address:
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VIVO Biobank
Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre
Level 6, Herschel Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 7RU
England
Last Updated: 03/13/2023
Annual Statistics
| Year | Access Requests Received | Access Requests Approved | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal | External | Commercial | Internal | External | Commercial | |
| 2015 | 0 | 11 | 0 | N/A | 9 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 9 | 0 | N/A | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 7 | 0 | N/A | 7 | 0 |
| 2018 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 5 | 0 | N/A | 5 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2022 | N/A | 10 | N/A | N/A | 5 | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |