
Northern Ireland Biobank (NIB)
http://www.nibiobank.org.uk/
Northern Ireland Biobank was established in 2010 to collect, store and distribute human samples for translational research and is primarily funded by the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Research & Development Division of the Public Health Agency. Cancer Research UK (CR-UK), the Friends of the Cancer Centre and Prostate Cancer UK have also provided financial support. The NIB complies with approvals from both the Office of Research Ethics in Northern Ireland and HSC R&D governance to host and distribute cohorts of quality assured biological samples linked with well-defined clinical and pathological data sets.
Services
- Access to the full pathology archive
- Tissue micro array creation
- Nucleic acid extraction
Existing samples:
- Carcinoma in situ of prostate (disorder)
- Fit and well (finding)
- Malignant neoplasm of endometrium of corpus uteri (disorder)
- Malignant tumor of breast (disorder)
- Malignant tumor of colon (disorder)
- Malignant tumor of ovary (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:
- nibiobank@qub.ac.uk
- Address:
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Northern Ireland Biobank
Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research
Queen's University Belfast
97 Lisburn Road
Belfast
Antrim
BT9 7AE
Northern Ireland
Last Updated: 08/02/2022
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