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“The advantages for Pathology Departments”

Wednesday 6 January 2010
Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College Rd, London SW7 2AZ

09.00 – 10.30 Session I	What can tissue banking do for me?
09.00 – 09.20	The Executive’s perspective	Malcolm Mason, WCB
09.20 – 09.40	The BMS perspective	Christine Davies, ABM Trust
09.40 – 10.00	The Pathologist’s perspective	Wynne Williams, ABM Trust

13.30- 15.00 Session III	What do researchers want?
13.30 – 14.00	What to collect and is it fit for purpose?	Gerry Thomas, Imperial College
14.00 – 14.30	What do biotech companies want?	Nessa Carey, CellCentric
14.30 – 15.00	What does Big Pharma want?	Chris Womack, AstraZeneca

15.30 – 17.00 Session IV	Using tissue banks for research
15.30 – 15.50	Research Tissue Banks and Access policies	Louise Jones, CRUK
15.50 – 16.20	Research Tissue Banks and Systems Biology in Cancer Research	Kristian Unger, Imperial College

sponsored by the
Wales Cancer Bank www.walescancerbank.com

With thanks to Qiagen GMBH and the Confederation of Cancer Biobanks who have generously sponsored this meeting