Services

• Access to the full pathology archive
• Data analytics
• Immunohistochemistry - scoring
• Immunohistochemistry - staining
• Tissue micro array creation

Existing samples:

• Malignant neoplasm of liver
• Malignant tumour of breast
• Malignant tumour of colon
• Malignant tumour of lung
• Malignant tumour of oesophagus
• Malignant tumour of ovary

Bespoke collection capabilities:

• Malignant tumour of oesophagus

Networks

• The Scottish Biorepository Network The NRS Biorepository network provides researchers with efficient managed access to a wide range of high-quality and well characterised tissue from across NHS Scotland for use in research. These include surplus material from diagnostic specimens and surgical procedures either from existing collections or through facilitating collection of the required material.
• 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