Liverpool Research Eye Bank, United Kingdom

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The Liverpool Research Eye Bank was set up to support research projects by providing them with eye tissue. Eyes that are donated to the Research Eye Bank are used in research projects across the United Kingdom and EU following an application process. The Liverpool Research Eye Bank supports the research that will help lead to significant advances in our understanding and treatment of these sight threatening diseases and may improve the quality of life for many people. We collect mainly cadaveric tissue but will be expanding our capability to collect tissue/ fluids from living donors by the end of 2020.

Registered Biobank Name	Liverpool Research Eye Bank
Biobank Leader	Hannah Levis
Country	United Kingdom
Email for biobank inquiries	h.levis@liverpool.ac.uk
Principal Investigator	Hannah Levis
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User Type Mono: A biobank that supports a specific research project, may have few staff members, a small-scale accrual scope with little to no initial intention of releasing or distributing biospecimens to secondary parties Oligo: A biobank that supports several research groups or clinical trials, may or may not be designed to release biospecimens outside their collaborative group Poly: A biobank that has generally a larger accrual scope, resources, and multiple users outside the biobank proper

Biospecimen Collected:

Cohort Highlights

100 cases Next Generation Sequencing assay to detect all classes of genetic variant in Lung Cancer using a single Diagnostic test.
200 cases Colorectal TMA for QC purposes in support of study of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in ovarian cancer tissues.
Build 300 cases breast cancer TMA containing primary tumour and matched metastatic LN for various subtypes (luminal, HER2, Triple negative). Start with Triple negatives.
125 cases Breast tumour and metastatic lymph nodes in breast cancer cases with outcomes of metastasis to lung or bone.
100 cases of rare tumours - fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. FFPE, frozen, BC.
200 cases of FFPE tissue sections from breast, lung adenocarcinoma, and lung squamous cell carcinoma with matching normal tissue (only pathology data requested).