Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Tissue Bank
http://www.cclg.org.uk/tissue-bank
National collection of childhood, teenagers and young adults solid tumour samples and lymphomas in the UK. Samples are centrally stored at the Central Bank, Newcastle University.
Services
- Immunohistochemistry - staining
- Tissue micro array creation
- Nucleic acid extraction
Existing samples:
- 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)
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:
- tissuebank@cclg.org.uk
- Telephone:
- 0191 208 4363
- Address:
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Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group
Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre
Level 6, Herschel Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 7RU
England
Last Updated: 02/03/2020
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 |