Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is now home of new state-of-the-art centralized tumour bank.
The Canadian Cancer Trials Group’s Tumour Tissue Data Repository and Queen’s University’s Labratory for Molecular Pathology are bringing 30 years of cancer research to a new space at KHSC.
President and CEO of the Research Institute at KHSC, Dr. Steve Smith, says this brings every sample available under one roof.
The new space will support clinical trials and research, bridging the gap between lab-based discoveries and patient care.
Smith says before they had to access samples and do the research in separate places.
Smith says with everything in one place, they will be able to accelerate research that will better help patients with cancer.
Many organizational partners, including the Canadian Cancer Trials Group, Queen’s University, KHSC, KHSC Research Institute, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, were able to help get the centralized tumour bank project off the ground.
Story by Ken Hashizume
