Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank

The Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank (BCNTB) is the UK’s first ever national breast cancer tissue bank and provides high-quality, biomaterials and data from breast cancer patients and individuals without breast cancer. The BCNTB provides the breadth of materials needed for breast cancer research, ranging from serum samples, through frozen and fixed tissue samples to isolated breast cell populations. We help the research community to raise the standard of breast cancer research and facilitate the coordinated translation of scientific findings into the clinical setting. Breast Cancer Now provides funding to four leading research institutions to run the BCNTB. All centres (listed below) are licensed by the Human Tissue Authority: • Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London (Lead Operational Centre) • University of Aberdeen • University of Sheffield • University of East Anglia

Services

  • Access to the full pathology archive
  • Cell culture
  • Data analytics
  • Digital imaging
  • Immunohistochemistry - staining
  • Tissue micro array creation
  • Nucleic acid extraction

Existing samples:

  • Malignant tumor of breast (disorder)

Bespoke collection capabilities:

  • Malignant tumor of breast (disorder)

Contact Information

Email:
tissue.bank@breastcancernow.org
Address:

Fifth Floor
Ibex House
42-47 Minories
London
Greater London
EC3N 1DY
England

Last Updated: 07/08/2020


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