Ocular Oncology Biobank

The Liverpool Ocular Oncology Biobank (OOB) is a research tissue bank at the University of Liverpool that centralises the collection of biosamples and data from consenting patients with eye cancer who attend the regional specialist Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre, Royal Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a unique collection from these rare tumours, which provides a high quality resource from which researchers can draw substantial linked collections of material and associated clinical data.

Services

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

Existing samples:

  • Malignant melanoma of eye (disorder)

Contact Information

Email:
h.kalirai@liv.ac.uk
Telephone:
01517949117
Address:

Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine
The University of Liverpool
3rd Floor William Henry Duncan Building
6 West Derby Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L7 8TX
England

Last Updated: 06/01/2021


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