Translational Support Posts at UCL
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
UCL were awarded #797K for scientists and support staff, targeted towards the delivery of UCLs translational strategy. These posts include staff to assist with UCLs (a) Translational Research office (b) Computational and Systems Medicine Theme (c) Biomarker pathway.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Description | Standardised procedures and regulatory advice for biobanking and training in use of facility |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | MRC Skills Gap Award |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH Capital Investment |
| Amount | £150,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Title | Biospecimen repository management and searchable database |
| Description | The Biospecimen repository management and Research Database are being developed with Canadian company, Genologics to support biobanking across UCL. The Biospecimen repository management system will allow registration and tracking of samples and associated data within the biobank facility. The Research Database, is web-accessible to allow researchers across the Globe to identify sample holdings and thus initiate collaborative research. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The biobank repository management and research database software is now being tested at the Royal Free Biobank to register and track samples and associated data within the facility. |
| Title | Centralised Biobank facilities. |
| Description | Two Human Tissue Authority licensed physical repositories: Royal Free Biobank, Cancer Institute and Pathology Biobank. These centralised facilities provide a range of services, procedure and regulatory advice to support researchers collecting human samples across UCL. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2009 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Provide support and training (where appropriate) for the following research projects to bank samples: NeuroEndocrine Tumour bank, a study of associated vasculitis in renal tissue, North London Cancer Network, Haem bank, TRANSBIL study |
| Title | GIATE |
| Description | Guidelines for Information about a Therapeutic Experiment, a Minimum Information standard as part of MIBBI.org |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Carsten Kettner, Dawn Field, Susanna Sansone, Chris Taylor, Jan Aerts, Nigel Binns, Andrew Black, Cedrik M. Britten, Ario de Marco, Jennifer Fostel, Pascale Gaudet, Alejandra González-Beltrán, Nigel Hardy, Jan Hellmans, Hennin Hermjakob, Nick Juty, Jim Leebens-Mack, Eamonn Maguire, Steffen Neumann, Sandra Orchard, Helen Parkinson, William Piel, Shoba Ranganathan, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Annapaola Santarsiero, David Shotton, Peter Sterk, Andreas Untergasser, Patricia L. Whetzel Meeting Report from the Second "Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations" (MIBBI) workshop Standards in Genomic Sciences, Vol 3, No 3 (2010) |
| Title | UCL BIobank: Collection of data and samples for a number of studies |
| Description | The central biobanks are collecting data and samples from a range of projects. Samples include tumour tissue, normal margin tissue, bloods, serum, plasma, DNA, renal tissue, biliary brushing, cells and associated data Collections only recently started so only supplying to researchers collecting samples at present |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Collections recently collected, research is now being carried out on a number of the samples. |
| Description | FL_ciliopathy |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Child Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Bioinformatics data analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to patient samples and data |
| Impact | Selected paper for presentation "Whole Exome Sequencing Identifies The Genetic Cause Of A New Ciliopathy Syndrome" at ESHG2011 - European Society of Human Genetics Conference May, 28-30th 2011 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | GMEC Stroke Partnership |
| Organisation | Global Medical Excellence Cluster (GMEC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This has allowed the development of an initiative to address unmet clinical need following stroke by a proposed biobank infrastructure in stroke. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Initiative to address unmet clinical needs following stroke |
| Impact | Coordination support from GMEC |
| Start Year | 2010 |